From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80065 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnir, gnus-goto-article and such Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:04:46 -0500 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 1317113817 27970 80.91.229.12 (27 Sep 2011 08:56:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:56:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28359@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Sep 27 10:56:53 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 1R8TTA-0006AA-Qd for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:56:53 +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 1R8TGw-0000aC-9B; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:44:14 -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 1R8TGv-0000a3-4f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:44:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1R8TGt-00038p-HD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:44:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R8TGq-0000Td-LO for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8TGq-0001e9-Fr for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([98.215.105.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:44:08 +0200 Original-Received: from jwiegley by c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:44:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-105-167.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QOlcupqz1yE/dFMq6vfyUE6JByU= X-Spam-Score: -4.5 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80065 Archived-At: >>>>> 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? John