Re: Problem fetching parent article

[Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu>]

Harry Putnam writes:

: Emerick Rogul <emerick@cs.bu.edu> writes:
:: Hmm...I just tried setting that value and I got the same behavior
:: (can't fetch a parent news article even though I _know_ it hasn't
:: expired yet).  On a whim, I tried running gnus (5.8.4) without any of
:: my config files loaded and it's also exhibiting this weird behavior.
:: Bug perhaps?  (No, never!... ;-)

: Also running recent (3-4)days 5.8.4 but not having that trouble.

: Make sure the message ID that is in ^References:  is the one you think
: it is.

OK, I just copied the References header of one of the articles I can't
do a ^ on.  I then re-entered the group and retrieved all of the
articles.  When I tracked down the parent, its Message-ID did indeed
match the References header I had copied down.  Dang it...

So basically, ^ does the right thing for me only if the parent article
is currently displayed in the summary buffer.  If it's not there, I
get a "Can't find parent article blah-blah" message.  One other odd
thing is that an "A r" to fetch the entire thread does still work, so
I'm using that as a sort of work-around.  I even tried this with a new
.newsrc.eld file just in case something was corrupted, and I got the
same behavior.

Oh well, I'll keep futzing with it...

-Emerick
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