How to retrieve a very old thread from ding list on gmane.emacs.gnus.general

How to retrieve a very old thread from ding list on gmane.emacs.gnus.general

[Harry Putnam]

I've downloaded upwards of 65000 posts from gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Which does not quite unearth a specific I've recently discovered I'd
like to retrieve.

65000 posts only goes back to Mar 2004.  The discussion thread
happened in 1999.

All I have is a part of a message from a thread I participated in with
Larsi back in 1999.  I plagiarized some of Larsi's code back then but
have not used it since probably 2002 or so... Now I cannot really
remember how it was supposed to be used.

It was about the method Lars was using to batch with gnus I think:
This is what has survived below... I'd like to get to that thread and
read the whole thing.

  ; To: ding@gnus.org
  ; Subject: Re: Song of Programming
  ; References: <m3k8si2oq2.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m3aetdbyew.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3u2rlhrrp.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m3emipkjyu.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3g134gb48.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m34sjklwpo.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3btdsg9id.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
  ; From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
  ; Date: 04 Jul 1999 04:50:10 -0700
  ; In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jul 1999 09:27:22 +0200"
  ; Message-ID: <m3zp1ck51p.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
  
  ; Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
  
  ; > Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
  ; > 
  ; > > I sense that I'm missing out on some nice functionality. How does the
  ; > > updated active file, new messages etc get to the unplugged
  
   (defun pgnus-unplugged ()
     (interactive)
     (setq gnus-plugged nil)
     (gnus))
  (setq gnus-read-active-file t)
  
   (defun lars-fetch-news ()
     (interactive)
     ;(push "/usr/local/pgnus-0.96/lisp" load-path)
     (let ((init-file-user "")
   	(gnus-always-read-dribble-file t))
       (gnus))
     (gnus-group-send-queue)
     (gnus-agent-fetch-session)
     (gnus-group-quit))

Re: How to retrieve a very old thread from ding list on gmane.emacs.gnus.general

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jun 18 2017, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:

>   ; References: <m3k8si2oq2.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m3aetdbyew.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3u2rlhrrp.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m3emipkjyu.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3g134gb48.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> <m34sjklwpo.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <m3btdsg9id.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>   ; From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
>   ; Date: 04 Jul 1999 04:50:10 -0700
>   ; In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jul 1999 09:27:22 +0200"
>   ; Message-ID: <m3zp1ck51p.fsf@satellite.local.lan>

You can retrieve articles by Message-ID with gnus-summary-goto-article.

Andreas.

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Re: How to retrieve a very old thread from ding list on gmane.emacs.gnus.general

[Harry Putnam]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jun 18 2017, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>>   ; References: <m3k8si2oq2.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>> <m3aetdbyew.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
>> <m3u2rlhrrp.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>> <m3emipkjyu.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
>> <m3g134gb48.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>> <m34sjklwpo.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
>> <m3btdsg9id.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
>>   ; From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
>>   ; Date: 04 Jul 1999 04:50:10 -0700
>>   ; In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "04 Jul 1999 09:27:22 +0200"
>>   ; Message-ID: <m3zp1ck51p.fsf@satellite.local.lan>
>
> You can retrieve articles by Message-ID with gnus-summary-goto-article.

Egad, of course, I knew about gnus-summary-goto-article
But I had assumed you had to have the message downloaded already.

So, all this time I could have just pressed `j' in
gmane.emacs.gnus.general.  Man what a dope

Thank you sir.