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Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> > You can't renumber the usenet messages, why should you be able to
> > renumber mail messages?  Makes no sense from the Gnus point of view.
> 
> But it makes sense from *my* point of view.

Then your point of view is wrong for Gnus.  The point of my message
was that if can't think of your mail as news which has arrived on a
slightly different route, then Gnus isn't the right tool for you.