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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> What do you all think?

In principle, marvelous.  In practice...

Signaling: (wrong-number-of-arguments read-string 5)
  read-string("Length of delay (default `3d'): " nil nil "3d" nil)
  (list (read-string (format "Length of delay (default `%s'): " gnus-delay-default-delay) nil nil gnus-delay-default-delay nil))
  call-interactively(gnus-delay-article)

Under XEmacs 21.4, doc string for read-string:

| (read-string PROMPT &optional INITIAL-CONTENTS HISTORY DEFAULT-VALUE)
| 
| Documentation:
| Return a string from the minibuffer, prompting with string PROMPT.
| If non-nil, optional second arg INITIAL-CONTENTS is a string to insert
|  in the minibuffer before reading.
| Third arg HISTORY, if non-nil, specifies a history list.
| Fourth arg DEFAULT-VALUE is the default value.  If non-nil, it is used
|  for history command, and as the value to return if the user enters the
|  empty string.

Having just checked on XEmacs 21.1.14, I see it lacks even the
DEFAULT-VALUE parameter.  Perhaps use INITIAL-CONTENTS instead?

Also, I'd like the ability to specify minutes, hours, months, and
years.  (Yes, really.)