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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Fetching msgs by their IDs
Message-ID: <5290@omepd.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:33:25 GMT
References: <566@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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In-reply-to: packer@chrpuser.gsfc.nasa.gov

In article <566@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@chrpuser writes:
| 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?

This depends on your newsreader.  In Gnews, I just point somewhere
near the message-ID in the text, and hit "@".  RN would take something
like "?Message-ID: <564@....>?hr" at the correct prompt.

See the manual on your particular newsreader.

Just another news-reader :-),
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