Re: `A T' and Gmanes humongus groups

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> In some groups I have dormant old articles, and this means that this
> will fetch an enormous number of messages.  I've just removed this,
> and had it fetch the previous/next 200 messages in the group.  This
> seems to do the trick most of the time, actually. 

Wouldn't it be much cleverer to let the server do the dirty searching
job and make a XPAT search on references header?

(This could give the user support for xpat searches I've been whining
for so long, too :-))

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