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Laura Conrad <lconrad@concord.com> writes:

  > I don't care what the names are, but there are times I wish it were
  > easier to connect the filename with the message in gnus.

Gnus shows the article number in the mode line of the summary buffer
(or was it the article buffer?).  For nnml and nnmh, the article
number is equal to the file name.

  > I do a fair amount of using grep to find the message which has a
  > given piece of information in it, and then I look at the headers
  > and then I go to the group and find that subject and author.

There is a command for jumping to an article.  It allows you to enter
the article number.

  > I'm sure there's a more straightforward way to do this.  What do
  > other people do?

Others have pointed out nnir.el.  It is available from
    ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/nnir.el
Let me know if I can help in setting it up.

kai
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