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ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:
> The advantage is that you can access groups in group buffer, but you
> cannot in server browse buffer.

I don't understand why it's an advantage.

Having a server-browsing buffer is for the specific purpose of looking
over what a particular server has to offer, and allowing the user to
ephemerally look into any of them, or do a general subscription pick
out of the complete list.

How does tacking this monstrous mass of mostly crud into *Group* do
anything useful for me?  On my PII-450, it took well over 2 minutes of
internal hackery for Gnus to do the shovel-groups-into-*Group*-as-
killed (because managing *Group* is comparatively convoluted), whereas
going for the original buffer-browsing-server-by-itself popped up in
all of perhaps 15 seconds.  My active file is about 600K.

I just don't see what new capability this is supposed to provide.