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Subject: Re: building a smarter gnus
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Organization: What did you have in mind?  A short, blunt, human pyramid?
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Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:42:36 -0500, prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) said:
>
> Paul> The manual used to say "backend", but it was changed at RMS's request.
> Paul> Feel free to let him know how much you appreciate it. :)
>
> I hate to ask, but why?  (I'm sure it was on this list and I missed it).

He didn't say, AFAICT.

>>> Yeah, that seems sensible to me.  Now, who's going to implement the
>>> support for doing this :-)
>
> Paul> I'll take a look at it after I finish some work on nnmaildir.

Hmm... maybe it would be better to skip this and work on using strings
instead of numbers for article identifiers.  If we're heading there
eventually (I hope), then ranges will have to be thrown out or
reinvented anyway.


paul