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Laura Conrad <lconrad@concord.com> writes:

> I don't care what the names are, but there are times I wish it were
> easier to connect the filename with the message in gnus. 

Using nnml, I assume?  It's easy.

> I do a fair amount of using grep to find the message which has a
> given piece of information in it, and then I look at the headers and
> then I go to the group and find that subject and author.  I'm sure
> there's a more straightforward way to do this.  What do other people
> do?

The name of the file is the article number.  So, if you find a file
named '1783', you can 'j' to article number 1783 to access it in
Gnus.  The easiest way to reverse this process is to read the Xref
header.

-- 
Justin Sheehy

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