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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> 
>> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
>>
>>> At one point, there was some talk about making Gnus use cancel locks
>>> per default.  Did anything came from that?
>>
>> There is contrib/canlock.el.  Didn't the canlock draft expire?
> 
> I believe so, but it should nonetheless be useful for Gnus even if
> nobody else supports them[1], and it might encourage others to support it
> if something visible (like Gnus) out here actually make active use of
> them.

Hm, does anyone know how good the canlock.el <-> Gnus integration is?
Does everything "just work" if we load the library?  Since there isn't
any documentation, anything more than loading the library is non-obvious.