From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80068 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:36:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87mxdwd944.fsf@andy.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317138928 16491 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2011 15:55:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:55:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28362@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 27 17:55:24 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8a0B-0006sa-QB for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:55:24 +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 1R8a02-0002aP-VN; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:55:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1R8a01-0002aA-7e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R8Zzw-0007YJ-Hs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:55:13 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8Zzu-00038U-Bl for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8Zzu-0006mH-65 for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:55:06 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:55:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1yX4gCjODVOzIq8GGp8PdgFhygA= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80068 Archived-At: on Tue Sep 27 2011, John Wiegley wrote: >>>>>> Dave Abrahams 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