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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> So, I've been thinking about a message registry.  What will it do?
>
> - track messages by ID
>
> - associate a Lisp structure (probably a list, hashes are too new?)
>   with a message ID

Way cool.  I think it's safe to use hashes -- Gnus uses them itself,
I think.  See gnus-make-hashtable, gnus-gethash, gnus-sethash.

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