own webbased newsgroup types

[Stefan Huchler]

I try to write own Group types for some web sites.

But I cant make any sense of old source parts. I am no big lisp
developer yet, but I dont find with google or emacshelp anything about
one thing.


  (let ((last (car (last articles)))
        (did nil)


I have no idea what this "did" thing is supposed to be

found it here:

Http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/emacs/emacs-51/emacs/lisp/gnus/nnslashdot.el

and here:

http://www.mit.edu/~mkgray/stuff/ath/afs/oldfiles/project/silk/root/afs/athena.mit.edu/contrib/xemacs/share/2005-12-08/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/nnultimate.el