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

> SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:
>> O.K.  I did some digging and unfortunately the behavior of suppressing 
>> childless dormants appears to be hardcoded.  Rats.

> It happens to be the whole idea behind the dormant mark.  

Why?  I tried using the dormant mark as a means of quickly seeing
which messages of mine had been responded to in a (Mail) group.  What
immediately turned me off about it is that once a message disappears
the entire group has to be rescanned to make these messages reappear.
I believe my objection to this would be resolved if there was a means
of having dormants older than a certain age (from a group parameter)
appear by default.

How are dormants supposed to be used?

> I think it is better to start working on support for real labels, or
> to start using subgroups as labels, instead of changing a feature like
> dormant articles into something for which it wasn't designed.

What are subgroups?

User-defined marks would be nice, or anything I can get access to in
`gnus-summary-highlight'.