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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Fetching msgs by their IDs
Message-ID: <25781205.734E@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 89 18:18:44 GMT
References: <566@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <5290@omepd.UUCP> <172@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <172@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:

   This is a quick late-night "10-minute hack" to look up message IDs.
   It works on my system, it may need a little work on yours.  It's
   faster than searching in rn, and will work even if the referenced
   article was in a different newsgroup, and redirected followups.
   (It has to be executed on the machine that keeps the history, so
   it's not really useful if you are using client NFS or NNTP).

Note that C News has "newshist" in $NEWSBIN/maint.  It will even work
over NFS mounted file systems (how come your's doesn't?):

netserv2:tale (1) /usenet/bin.server/maint/newshist 172@toaster.SFSU.EDU
<172@toaster.SFSU.EDU>	628603751-~	news.newusers.questions/1009

Note that NNTP already has a mechanism for directly accessing articles
by Message-ID.  GNUS has a couple of features which take advantage of
this; I don't know whether other NNTP readers are similarly equipped.

Dave
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