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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

> Unfortunately because the interface to Gnus is inherently
> synchronous I'm stuck using a kludge with recursive-edit's which
> doesn't scale to multiple backends.

Now all we need is a Schemer to chime in with "...but if Elisp
supported continuations, recursive-edits would work just fine for
multiple backends..." and thus win the second place in "I missed the
whole point awards."

(The first place goes to the multithreading dudes, of course.)