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>>>>> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann):

> For example, nnml could be augmented to auto-split viewed messages
> into several files, I guess.  Then, slowly, all the big attachments
> would migrate out of the main file and the Gnus article display
> would be a lot faster because it didn't have to filter out all that
> base64 stuff.

Not having to parse attachments every time, would make sense, I guess.
It would make the nnml groups incompatible with older versions of
Gnus, and different from newsspools.  I do not know if this would be a
problem?