From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65030 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ansgar Burchardt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: cannot always fetch parent article Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:18:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186665560 24769 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2007 13:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:19:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13540@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Aug 09 15:19:19 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IJ7v2-0003IA-MI for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:19:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ7tu-0004Ql-Pu; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ7tr-0004QP-NB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ7tq-0008K5-Pj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IJ7tq-0007f8-00 for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:18:02 +0200 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-084-056-233-219.pools.arcor-ip.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1186665482 28922 84.56.233.219 (9 Aug 2007 13:18:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:18:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+BmqK79qjdQxoRVn/fQgajSfuf8= X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65030 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: >>>>>> Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> If I post a followup to an article to a different group (e.g. a random >> *.test group) and then try to fetch the parent article it works without >> problems. The problem only occurs if the parent was posted in the >> same group as the followup and Gnus tries to guess the article number. >> If Gnus behaved as in the first case, everything would be fine. > > I studied how Gnus refers to parent articles, and realized that > Gnus uses an article number only when a parent article is in the > current group. Could you try the patch attached below? [ patch introducing nntp-xref-number-is-evil snipped ] The patch solves the problem. Thank you. Ansgar