>> As an experiment, I globally set `nntp-nov-is-evil' to `t' and disabled
>> the agent to see if it even works. I ran into a lot of problems where
>> Gnus lost track of the unread messages for simple NNTP groups. Is this
>> expected or is this potentially a bug?
>
> Sounds like a bug to me.

I must have gotten myself into an undefined state last night, can't
reproduce.

Thank you for your help! Learned a lot about how virtual groups work in
the process of trying to get this to work :)

-- 
Alex.