Re: Q: Getting all the parents to the current topic from the server

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Passer By <sender@sender.send> writes:

> Ok sometimes people don't quote just right so i wish to read the
> original parent, i would like to be able to fetch all parent articles
> of the current article that are on my server. How might i do that in
> one or two steps?
>
>
> for example lets say the whole thread on the server was
>
>
> -------
> *Group*
> -----------------------------------------------------
>   14: rahed               ] gmail from gnus
>        <  22: Leo                 >
>            [  17: Brep                ]
>                [  29: koocyton            ]
>                    [  33: Ted Zlatanov        ]
>        <  22: Radek               >
>            [  40: Ted Zlatanov        ]
>                [  38: Radek               ]
>                    [  63: Ted Zlatanov        ]
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> but i had already read and forgot about the first 2 replys and so had
>
>
> -------
> *Group*
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>                [  29: koocyton            ] Re: gmail for gnus
>                    [  33: Ted Zlatanov        ]
>        <  22: Radek               >
>            [  40: Ted Zlatanov        ]
>                [  38: Radek               ]
>                    [  63: Ted Zlatanov        ]
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> I would like to run a command on article
>
>   [  29: koocyton            ] Re: gmail for gnus
>
> that would give me the original thread structure up to
>
> 14: rahed               ] gmail from gnus
>


Look in the Article menu, there is a command for the parent, all referenced
articles, or the entire thread.  That might be a place to start.

Dave