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Kim-Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@vocatex.fr> writes:

> > > Actually, I've been thinking a lot lately about how to make gnus more
> > > asynchronous, and I think its possible to do things like dynamic
> > > summary buffer updates while you're looking at it and its still
> > > pulling in headers.
> ....
> > I don't think so, TCP connections are also asynchronous, but you could
> > also run some code with idle-timer to do things like this.
> 
> Emacs supports the event driven model when it comes to TCP.  So you
> would not need to use idle-timers.

Well, for nnml and other backends that doesn't use external processes
or TCP I would.