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wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

> Hmmm... I guess you could have Gnus internally know nothing about the
> actual article other than the MIME handles.  Instead of
> XXX-request-article, you would have XXX-request-article-structure, and most
> backends would just have a trivial wrapper of (mm-dissect-buffer
> (XXX-request-article ...))

Hmm.  Yes.  Or the backend could just send the structure to Gnus on
nn*-request-article, and all the contents could be
message/external-body-ies.  Or something.  That would reduce a bit of
the complexity, but, er, it still won't be trivial to implement...

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