>>>> Olivier Galibert writes: 
    OG> What for ?  Most people don't care about multithreading, they
    OG> only want xemacs to stop blocking while gnus reads the active
    OG> file.  Implementing a fully-fledged multithreading for _that_
    OG> is way overkill.
if the feature becomes available, apps can be written to it, like
parallel fetches with nntp/nnimap/nnml backends in gnus.  multiple
non-blocking apps in different frames.
You build it, they'll come.