Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janík ml.) writes:

> So I also thought about the Real Solution (tm). We should probably invent
> another type of mark, which is associated with annotations. It can be stored
> in .newsrc.eld or somewhere else?
> 
> gnus-newsrc-alist in .newsrc.eld looks like this now:
> 
> ("Gnus" 3 ((1 . 1748)) ((dormant 1015 (1153 . 1154)) (expire (1735 . 1748)) (reply 1466 1557 1637) (tick 1734)))
> 
> What about inventing new mark annotate like this:
> 
> ("Gnus" 3 ((1 . 1748)) ((annotate (1 "This is the first message in the buffer.") (1748 "I just received this message."))))
> 
> The first message is marked as such and the last one too. If this is
> implemented, you can easily limit the summary buffer to the regexp of these
> annotations and similar.
> 
> What do you think about it?

This would be one way of doing it, but it doesn't seem to go far
enough.