Support for news URLs?

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

A bunch of us were thinking about browse-url-at-point and related
functions, and were wondering if there would be a good way to get gnus
to handle these.  The primary problems of making a handling function
are threefold:

1) Must start up (enough of) gnus if gnus isn't already started.
   Preferably it should start it up without opening any servers.
2) Must be able to do the equivilant of a
   `gnus-summary-refer-article', even if a summary buffer is not
   existant.  Should perhaps make its own summary buffer.
3) Should either use the newserver in the url, or use a default
   newserver specified in some (unspecified) variable.

I'm willing to code this myself, if someone more knowledgable (or with
more time) will point me in the right direction.

-- 
Michael Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)
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