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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Filler lines
Message-ID: <9228@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 89 13:59:38 GMT
References: <13871@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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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.

As an example, suppose I'm searching back for your article, which has an ID of
          <13871@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
I'll be looking for an article with the line
    Message-ID: <13871@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> 
in the header.  So I use the search command 
    ?ID: *<13781@bloom?hr
where the "ID:" is the end of "Message-ID:",
" *" means any number of spaces (in case there are more than one space here),
"<13781@bloom" is the first part of the ID of the message I'm looking for,
the question marks mean to search backwards,
the trailing "h" means to search all of the header lines,
and the trailing "r" means to search already-read articles also.
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Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4