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I've never really been satisfied with the unused screen real estate to 
the right of the article headers.  Most headers are short -- less than 
40 characters -- which leaves a region of 6-8 lines that are only
half-filled.

One possibility would be to display the article headers in a window of 
their own, and use a window config like this:

--------------------------
|                        |
--------------------------
|          |             |
|          |             |
--------------------------
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
|                        |
--------------------------

But the thing is that an Emacs frame with more than two windows in it
sucks, because `C-x o' doesn't really do what you want it to and
stuff.

And besides, the extra mode bars takes up too much space.

The other way, that's just occurred to me, it to just kludge it up.
One could make the header lines invisible at the fourtieth character,
and then insert spaces to pad things out and stuff.  And then one
could (carefully) use that remaining space to display, er, stuff.
Like picons, and MIME information, or thread trees, or, well,
whatever.   But especially picons and MIME information.  Especially
especially picons.

So I'm going to give this a whack, I think.  (Optional, of course.)

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen