Re: Fetching a thread

On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:45:56 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum
<kirshenbaum@xxxxxxxxxx> said:

[about a newsreader finding the parent to the current
postingkk]

I an see how a program could conceivably be written to do
that, because the information is available in the
"References" line, but is that really what your reader does?

That's exactly what it does. When I hit "^" to go to the "parent"
article, it looks at the "References" line, grabs the value, figures
out which reference is the Message-ID of the parent, and then asks the
server for that message. This even works (if my server has the
parent) if the article is a reply to an article in a different group
(i.e., if it is the first article crossposted to the group I'm
reading.)

I can also ask it to go up a certain number of levels or list
everything (it has or up to a certain number of articles) in the
entire thread, read and unread.

So far as I know, there is no way to make Agent aware of postings
that are not available for download. If there is some way to use
Agent that way, I would greatly appreciate learning about it.

Can't help you there, I'm afraid. I would have expected any decent
newsreader to do it, though.

I'd like to know the names of some newsreaders that will work the
way you seem to be saying yours works.

I'm using Gnus, which runs inside of Emacs.

And Emacs runs under Unix, right?

Does anyone here know of a Windows based newsreader that
will do the sort of thing Evan has described?
.

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