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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Filler lines
Message-ID: <14600@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 14:24:34 GMT
References: <21376@paris.ics.uci.edu> <460@nixpbe.UUCP> <13871@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <13871@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> oliver@athena.mit.edu (James D. Oliver III) writes:
>Okay, so how do you find an article by message-ID, given that Rn lists
>the articles in numerical order within groups, which apparently has
>no relation.

In "rn" you can do this two ways.  The longer more precise way is to use
the back-search key "?" as follows:

	?d: <460@nixpbe?rh

This will hunt backwards for the article with "Message-Id:
<460@nixpbe.UUCP>" in the header.  The "r" at the end of the command
tells "rn" to search messages marked as already read; the "h" says look
in the whole header (without the "h" it would only look at the Subject;
with a "a" it would search the article text as well).

The quicker less precise way is to hit Ctrl-P, which searches backwards
for the previous message (read or unread) with the same Subject line as
the current.  A few quick Ctrl-P's is usually all it takes to find a
referenced article.

I recommend that all new users take the time to read the documentation
for their chosen newsreader - rn or whatever.  You can learn a lot.
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