Dan Davison <dandavis...@gmail.com> writes: > Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > >> Dan <dandavis...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Incidentally, can any gnus users tell me -- is there a non-painful way of >>> retrieving an old message from nntp in order to create a reply in the >>> correct >>> thread? Or do you hack the headers to make it appear in the right thread? >>> I'm >>> using the gmane web interface to send this. >> >> I read the list through gnus and gmane. When I'm in the summary buffer >> for the org-mode list I can retrieve old messages with >> >> / O 500 RET >> >> to get the last 500 messages from the list. > > Thanks Bernt and Seb, but that was the route I was referring to when I > said "painful" :) The list volume is quite high, and retrieving > thousands of messages takes a while. And of course you go for 1500 and > it turns out to be message 1728... > > It seems a rather primitive practice, can we really not do better? Is it > not possible to use a unique identifier to pull down a specific message? > (I was not reading usenet or whatever it was called in the 1980s; I > don't really know anything about these technologies.)
Hi Dan, I also make org-capture mode links to interesting messages when I read them if I intend to follow up on it at a later time. So on a gnus-message I just do C-M-r and create a task that links to the mail. This means I can open the linked message directly from the captured org-mode task with C-c C-o and just reply to that - and the reply is threaded properly. This is my preferred way to do this type of thing. My email links to org-mode articles on gmane look like this: [[gnus:nntp%2Bnews.gmane.org:gmane.emacs.orgmode#4cee66d5.2030...@gmail.com][email from Rainer M. Krug: OT: Question concerning vc-wor]] When retrieving old messages with / O 500 RET it gets the next 500 older messages you haven't already retrieved -- so if you're at 1500 and you need to get to 1728 ... you just need to / O 228 RET to get the rest of the way. I rarely search though the entire list of messages for old stuff - but I find this method of searching in Gnus much better than any web based search -- since the message id isn't available in the gmane web archives as far as I know. -Bernt _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
