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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> jari.aalto@poboxes.com (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs) writes:
> 
> > I use dormants for "todo" entries and not really for what they
> > are orgiinally menat for. This means, that I always like to see
> > the buffer generated with dormant, but in current gnus that is not
> > possible.
> 
> Uhm -- the only essential difference between dormant and ticked
> articles is that dormant articles aren't shown (unless they have
> follow-ups).  So what don't you just tick the articles instead?

Another thing... I haven't tested it thoroughly but I think if you
press `/ D' in a group, it will still show dormant the next time you
enter too.  That is, press  `/ D', close the group, come back later
and reopen it... dormant will be displayed.