From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50016 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A T more intelligent than ^ ? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:57:33 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044982574 18156 80.91.224.249 (11 Feb 2003 16:56:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:56:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18idhb-0004ie-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:56:11 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18idjF-00054r-00; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:57:53 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:58:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02297 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:58:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18idgq-0004eU-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:55:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@hpc.uh.edu Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18idgq-0004eK-00 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:55:24 +0100 Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wFVnVKoJBxV9jk8BjCTBGYcqq6E= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50016 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50016 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ami Fischman writes: > >> To emphasize, neither In-Reply-To nor References appears in the headers of >> the followup at all. > > Hm. And yet `A T' managed to thread the message? That's really > odd -- it really shouldn't be able to fetch anything at all. > > It's possible (although extremely unlikely) that the news server is > returning a References header in the NOV headers, and not in the HEAD > headers, but I've never heard of anything like that.... And without > References/In-Reply-To, Gnus just can't thread. (It can gather > articles based on Subject, but that doesn't help `A T'.) I've very commonly seen the opposite: `A T' finds no messages, but I can go backwards in time with `^'. Inexplicable? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com