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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Yup.  The problem is that making the above work is not enough, you would
> need to fix the rest of Gnus to understand this as well.  Caching, Agent,
> scoring and whatnot.

Maybe simple things can be done easily?  For example, if Gnus by
default turns some MIME parts into external body buttons, then the
Agent would do the same, and people would need to be online for
fetching the messages behind those.

kai
-- 
Simplification good!  Oversimplification bad!  (Larry Wall)