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Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> What I want (that it doesn't do), is to 
>  1. constrain it to a newsgroup

Actually, it does. You just need to know the DejaNews query
language. For example:

(~g gnu.emacs.gnus) & (~s search)

Will search gnu.emacs.gnus for the string "search". Check out:

http://web3.dejanews.com/help/help_ps.shtml

For more info on their language.

>  2. get real articles from the newsgroup if I can, fake them from
>     search results, if they have expired on the server

Can't help you on this one.

Chris

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