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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> I've just checked in some additions to the manual for nnmaildir.
>
> Cool.  Why doesn't it use nnoo, btw?

There are some things about nnoo that I don't like.  The "nnchoke-"
prefix on server parameters seems pretty useless.  Conflating server
parameters with global variables is not a good thing.  nnmaildir isn't
derived from nnmail nor from any other backend, so using nnoo wouldn't
have bought much.  Also, nnoo hides some of the details about the
Gnus<->backend interface; this can be convenient, but since I was
trying to learn all those details, it wasn't doing me any good.


paul