Re: [Q]: gnus-summary-refer-parent-article, what does it deserve ?

[Xavier Maillard <zedek+news@gnu-rox.org>]

On  3 mar 2004, Marcus Frings wrote:

* Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> wrote:
> 
> > Today I incidentally discovered a gnus feature. When in a summary
> > buffer, hit '^' and you can (provided it is possible) read the
> > ancestor(s) of an article.
> 
> Yes, it's a very nice feature, isn't it? :-)
> 
> > I admit it could be useful but my problem is I don't even know when
> > people use it exactly (if ever used).
> > So can somebody explain me when does he use this feature ?
> 
> I use it quite often. In addition I have:
> 
> ;; How to find the parent article
> (setq gnus-refer-article-method
> '(current
> 	(nntp "iridium.home.local")           ; first my local inn, then
> 	(nntp "news.t-online.de")             ; news.t-online.de, then
> (nnweb "google" (nnweb-type google))  ; groups.google.com and finally
> 	(nntp "news.gmane.org")))             ; news.gmane.org
> 
> Since I let Gnus show me new articles only and I often need to go up
> within the thread I usually hit ^ instead of rebuilding the thread by
> `A R' or `A T'. Besides my local inn stores articles just for 4 months
> so it is a great feature to look at other newsservers with the code
> mentioned above.

Thank you for your explanations. I am also thinking on installing my
own local nntp server here. I am still trying to see which one between
inn, inn2 and leafnode I should use :)

Maybe you can help me to choose ? Is inn and inn2 the same (one the
evolution of the other) ?
 
zeDek
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