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From: packer@chrpuser.gsfc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Fetching msgs by their IDs
Message-ID: <566@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Nov 89 13:13:58 GMT
Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
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I have noticed people make free use of the Message ID in 
referring to previous messages. For example, in an E-mail
reply to my recent test message here, someone wrote

In article <564@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> you write:
=>Could someone from outside Goddard Space Flight Center

Suppose I wanted to read the original message <564@dftsrv.....
There doesn't seem to be a way to fetch it directly using
this ID.  Am I right in supposing that I would just have to do
a pattern search for its earliest occurence in the newsgroup?