Those groups levels again

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

I just can't decide what to do about those pesky group levels.  This
is what I'm currently thinking about:

1) The level can be in integer, like now, between 1 and 9 (by default)

2) The level can be a cons, where the car has the level and the cdr
has a, uhm, score.  Perhaps.

Now, if we had this, we could do some interesting things.  Like
`sort-by-level-and-then-score'.  Then all level 4 groups would come
before all level 5 groups (so that those really important groups comes
before those less important) but we could still have bubbling on the
"score" of the group -- inside each level.  So whenever I read a level
5 group, the score would rise, and the next time I sort, that group
would "rise".  But it would never "rise" above any level 4 groups.

One could also do display-oriented things based on this (perhaps in
conjuction with `gnus-topic'.  Each level gets its own topic, and so
on. 

This would all be totally backwards compatible, and it's rather easy
to implement.  And it doesn't bloat the .newsrc.eld file much.  (I
originally thought of floating point levels, but that would really
either massively bloat the .newsrc.eld file, or slow down .newsrc.eld
generation dramatically.  (We couldn't use just `prin1' as now.))

Whadda y'all think?

In other news, I've been fixing lots & lots & lost of September bugs,
so I think that might be heading towards being usable.  nnsoup also
seems to have started behaving after I slapped it about a bit.  So I
think I'll be documenting it now.

Expect a release tomorrow.

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