Re: Why does Gnus article-moving act like a fetch of new news?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> I expected article-moving to be an entirely local operation, and to have
>>> nothing to do with fetching new news.  After all, Gnus already has the
>>> article in question -- it's not "new".
>> What if the destination group has been updated in the mean time?  Gnus
>> needs to know the current status of the group, before it can write to
>> it.
>
> But what if it gets updated *again* before we actually write to it?

Also, in this case, it's updated *after* the article is moved to it.