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> But that's the easy part...the slightly harder part is getting it
> extracted and built (e.g. using scripts as posted by Jan Vroonhof).  And,
> from what I know, there even harder part is getting it done online so that
> you can hit an "update gnus" button in a message online (e.g. Lars'
> announcements) that will fire it all of, then "exit" your current gnus
> version and fire up the new gnus version while you wait (with bonus points
> for getting you back in where you left off - reading the announcement
> message :-)).

While I'm aware that this might hit a raw nerve on some people, and might be
considered an extreme folly, why not build some kind of scripting language into
Gnus that would allow something to this effect? Such a language (called ness)
has been used at CMU for some time, and without any serious (that I know of)
harm coming to the script runners.

While elisp does seem a good choice, I doubt it would pass the safety
inspection of the skeptics. Perhaps a small scheme interpreter or otherwise, or
am I just looking at some pie in the sky dream?

Stew
Rant on.
>>From the stockade:
The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.