diff -r e118b4d60029 -r b78e77619152 src/org/sonews/storage/Channel.java
--- a/src/org/sonews/storage/Channel.java	Sun Sep 11 14:19:19 2011 +0200
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,103 +0,0 @@
-/*
- *   SONEWS News Server
- *   see AUTHORS for the list of contributors
- *
- *   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
- *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
- *   (at your option) any later version.
- *
- *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *   GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- */
-package org.sonews.storage;
-
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
-import org.sonews.util.Pair;
-
-/**
- * A logical communication Channel is the a generic structural element for sets
- * of messages; e.g. a Newsgroup for a set of Articles.
- * A Channel can either be a real set of messages or an aggregated set of
- * several subsets.
- * @author Christian Lins
- * @since sonews/1.0
- */
-public abstract class Channel {
-
-	/**
-	 * If this flag is set the Group is no real newsgroup but a mailing list
-	 * mirror. In that case every posting and receiving mails must go through
-	 * the mailing list gateway.
-	 */
-	public static final int MAILINGLIST = 0x1;
-	/**
-	 * If this flag is set the Group is marked as readonly and the posting
-	 * is prohibited. This can be useful for groups that are synced only in
-	 * one direction.
-	 */
-	public static final int READONLY = 0x2;
-	/**
-	 * If this flag is set the Group is marked as deleted and must not occur
-	 * in any output. The deletion is done lazily by a low priority daemon.
-	 */
-	public static final int DELETED = 0x80;
-
-	public static List<Channel> getAll() {
-		List<Channel> all = new ArrayList<Channel>();
-
-		/*List<Channel> agroups = AggregatedGroup.getAll();
-		if(agroups != null)
-		{
-		all.addAll(agroups);
-		}*/
-
-		List<Channel> groups = Group.getAll();
-		if (groups != null) {
-			all.addAll(groups);
-		}
-
-		return all;
-	}
-
-	public static Channel getByName(String name)
-			throws StorageBackendException {
-		return StorageManager.current().getGroup(name);
-	}
-
-	public abstract Article getArticle(long idx)
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract List<Pair<Long, ArticleHead>> getArticleHeads(
-			final long first, final long last)
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract List<Long> getArticleNumbers()
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract long getFirstArticleNumber()
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract long getIndexOf(Article art)
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract long getInternalID();
-
-	public abstract long getLastArticleNumber()
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract String getName();
-
-	public abstract long getPostingsCount()
-			throws StorageBackendException;
-
-	public abstract boolean isDeleted();
-
-	public abstract boolean isWriteable();
-}