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Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> writes:

> Is it possible to view active file hierarchically ?  It's not
> convenient to browse flat list of 20000+ newsgroups.

It might be a useful feature (and surely a very good exercise :-) to
write an `active' mode for Emacs, that would suit especially well in
the Gnus package.  It could also give access the the group descriptions.
It could use Outline minor mode, after suitable buffer preparation.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard