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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     I hope `eliminate' doesn't mean you won't be able to read it any more.
> 
> We will have a conversion program.

Note that Gnus has a Babyl backend, which calls Rmail to do its stuff.

> We might want to save these files normally in emacs-mule encoding,

I don't know why, but if you do, you probably have no way to figure
out how to read them in future.

> or maybe we would want to decode each message individually when
> displaying it.

That's what I would expect.  I hope you'll consider what Gnus does,
though I doubt you can use its code directly (unfortunately).