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From: ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor)
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Subject: Re: history.dbm contents?
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Date: 15 May 91 04:33:18 GMT
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heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes:

>While it might be really handy for some software that has a message-id
>and wants to convert that to pathname(s) or such to have that info in
>the DBM file that way, I can't find any software that actually makes
>use of that information.

GNUS does, at least.  Since the subject has come up, I'd like to
mention that at least once a week I curse the fact that I can't look
up the articles that appear in the References: line (I can do this
using GNUS, but on my system it's too slow for me).  I hope more
newsreaders will add such a feature in the future.
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