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jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:

> I use dormants for "todo" entries and not really for what they
> are orgiinally menat for. This means, that I always like to see
> the buffer generated with dormant, but in current gnus that is not
> possible. A separate "limit" is needed to show them.

WIBNI (count this as a feature request if you like) There were
user-definable marks?  That is, the user could create a new kind of
mark and give it various characteristics like "read but not answered,
although I would like to, unless its past a week old, then I don't
care" or indeed a "todo" mark.

Then one could have a virtual group with all your mail in it, and with
a suitable hook upon entering it could be limited to all those
articles bearing gnus-user-mark-B and, lo, you have your todo group...