From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:36:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r5320zgc.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vcse4ga9.fsf@gmail.com>
on Tue Sep 27 2011, John Wiegley <jwiegley-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>
>>> I guess we can consult the registry for all the articles mentioned in the
>>> references header and see if any of those articles came from different
>>> servers and search those servers as well. But if they are nntp servers we
>>> can't really search them effectively (since nntp doesn't have search
>>> facilities).
>
>> Wow; we can't pull up a message by ID from NNTP? too bad.
>
> How, then, does 'A R' work for any Message-Id known to the NNTP server? I've
> tried this for ancient articles from 7 years ago, and Gnus pops the message
> right into my summary buffer. How is it finding it then?
Right, if it couldn't do that, it wouldn't be able to handle `^'
either in a default configuration. And it does.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 18:24 Dave Abrahams
2011-09-16 15:05 ` gnus-warp-to-article (was: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such) Dave Abrahams
2011-09-21 18:03 ` nnir, gnus-goto-article and such Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-21 21:16 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-22 13:01 ` Andrew Cohen
2011-09-26 19:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 20:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-27 7:04 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-27 15:36 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-09-26 20:01 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-26 21:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 15:35 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-27 21:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 14:34 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 0:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 1:19 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 2:06 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 8:27 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 13:40 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 14:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 14:40 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 14:58 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 20:04 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-29 23:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 8:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-27 16:04 ` Dave Abrahams
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