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>>>>> Olivier Galibert writes:

    OG> What for ?  Most people don't care about multithreading, they
    OG> only want xemacs to stop blocking while gnus reads the active
    OG> file.  Implementing a fully-fledged multithreading for _that_
    OG> is way overkill.

if the feature becomes available, apps can be written to it, like
parallel fetches with nntp/nnimap/nnml backends in gnus.  multiple
non-blocking apps in different frames.

You build it, they'll come.