Re: : gnus-summary-refer-parent-article, what does it deserve ?

[Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>]

spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:08:53 +0100, Xavier wrote:
>
>> So can somebody explain me when does he use this feature ?
>
> I use it when I read a new article in a thread I've previously read
> (the day before, or something), and I can't remember what someone said
> earlier in the thread. ^ a couple of times, and there you go.

People who set gnus-fetch-old-headers to t will use ^ less often.  But
some people might prefer to actually see new articles only, so they
set gnus-fetch-old-headers to nil.  Then they can use ^ to get the
parent of an article.

Of course, the feature that ^ can fetch from sources other than the
current newsserver is really cool and makes ^ much more useful.

Kai