Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: All these title lines! Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 89 12:31:25 GMT References: <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <321@vector.Dallas.TX.US> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US's message of 30 Jul 89 04:35:51 GMT On 30 Jul 89 04:35:51 GMT, chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) said: Chip> Unfortunately, most of the available news reading software isn't Chip> able to do anything with this header. If they did, Chip> theoretically you could easily follow through a discussion Chip> thread. However, this is complicated by the fact that a lot of Chip> software out there doesn't formulate the "References" header Chip> properly. Most, but not all. GNUS (a newsreader which runs under GNU Emacs and uses NNTP) supports tracing a thread of discussion by looking up (by Message-ID) the last article in the References field. (For GNUS users who haven't noticed this feature, the function is normally bound to the "^" key.) When this works, it works nicely. Changes in the Subject line do not matter. Unfortunately, some posters or software remove references, or leave them blank, so it can't always be traced. Nor can forward traces be done. But it is a nice feature. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.