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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> wrote:
> Gnus will be less robust if it has to support mutiple filesystem
> layouts, so there has to be some real advantage to make up for that.

Gnus already supports multiple filesystem layouts via different
backends.  I don't think that has made it less robust.


paul