From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] retrieving old messages
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:19:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbf5ndhk.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj4h2k53.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (Dan Davison's message of "Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:00:56 +0000")
Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com> writes:
> Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
>
>> Dan <dandavison7@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#4CEE66D5.2030909@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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-26 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 11:55 [Babel] Handling of errors when using Ledger Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-07 13:36 ` Dan Davison
2010-10-12 19:58 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-10-13 8:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-25 16:32 ` Dan
2010-11-25 19:59 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-11-25 21:00 ` [OT] retrieving old messages [WAS] " Dan Davison
2010-11-26 0:19 ` Bernt Hansen [this message]
2010-11-29 2:34 ` Matt Lundin
2010-11-29 9:14 ` [OT] retrieving old messages Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-29 14:11 ` Matt Lundin
2010-11-25 21:13 ` [Babel] Handling of errors when using Ledger Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-25 20:03 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-11-26 8:34 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-26 11:47 ` Dan Davison
2010-11-26 12:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-23 10:28 ` Dan Davison
2010-12-23 15:52 ` Sébastien Vauban
2010-12-23 19:07 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-05 0:29 ` Dan Davison
2011-03-07 9:11 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-27 22:04 ` [Babel] Piping between code blocks Was: " Eric Schulte
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