Rakesh schrieb: > What I want is to *group the messages belonging to each thread* .
Hello Why not sort with Message-ID and References? Attention - it is a Newbie-Solution. import nntplib hamster = nntplib.NNTP('127.0.0.1', 119, 'user', 'pass') resp, count, first, last, name = hamster.group('comp.lang.python') resp, items = hamster.xover(first,last) start_dic = {} re_dic = {} numb = 1 for id,subject,author,date,message_id,references,size,lines in items: if 'Re:' not in subject: start_dic[subject] = (author, message_id) else: re_dic[numb] = (subject, author, references) numb += 1 resp = hamster.quit() for a in start_dic: print a print start_dic[a][0] for b in re_dic: if start_dic[a][1] in re_dic[b][2]: print '|' print ' ->', re_dic[b][0] print ' ', re_dic[b][1] print -- Werner Amann -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list