Re: Ping STC re RFD/CFV

[Tony]

In uk.net.news.config, Matthew Vernon <mat...@debian.org> wrote:

>kat <little...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> What I find really odd is that apart from the macsoup thing which
>> needs to have the posts in the first place, I gather, no-one has said
>> what they use that works.
>
>I use gnus, which works on any platform that can run emacs (so Unix,
>windows, Macos at least). "j" lets you jump to an article number or
>message-id.
>
>As it happens the news-server I run has a neat utility called nntpid
>which lets you paste message-ids (in a number of formats) and gives you
>the article back in a pager.

I'll see your nntpid and raise you a

/usr/lib/news/bin/sm $(/usr/lib/news/bin/grephistory '<message@id>')

btw: do you have a link to the nntpid source?

(CP & FU set to erm, uk.net)
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Tony Evans
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Would prefer in a standard spool format but will take what I can get.

[Owen Dunn]

Tony <to...@darkstorm.invalid> writes:

> I'll see your nntpid and raise you a
>
> /usr/lib/news/bin/sm $(/usr/lib/news/bin/grephistory '<message@id>')
>
> btw: do you have a link to the nntpid source?

I'm aware of a couple of implementations, probably related.

Simon Tatham's:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/utils/nntpid.html

Ian Jackson's:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=chiark-utils.git;a=summary
(and packaged in Ubuntu and Debian as chiark-utils)

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[Tony]

In uk.net, Owen Dunn <ow...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>Tony <to...@darkstorm.invalid> writes:
>
>> I'll see your nntpid and raise you a
>>
>> /usr/lib/news/bin/sm $(/usr/lib/news/bin/grephistory '<message@id>')
>>
>> btw: do you have a link to the nntpid source?
>
>I'm aware of a couple of implementations, probably related.
>
>Simon Tatham's:
>
>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/utils/nntpid.html

Thank you. I did find that yesterday via google, but didn't go back up one
directory and assumed it was just the man page with no download!

>Ian Jackson's:
>
>http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=chiark-utils.git;a=summary
>(and packaged in Ubuntu and Debian as chiark-utils)

Aha thanks, I had a quick look in apt-cache, but searched nntpid.

[Ian Jackson]

In article <m6t3t6$olb$1...@matrix.darkstorm.co.uk>,

Tony <to...@darkstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>In uk.net.news.config, Matthew Vernon <mat...@debian.org> wrote:
>>As it happens the news-server I run has a neat utility called nntpid
>>which lets you paste message-ids (in a number of formats) and gives you
>>the article back in a pager.
>
>I'll see your nntpid and raise you a
>/usr/lib/news/bin/sm $(/usr/lib/news/bin/grephistory '<message@id>')

That obviously only works on the server. nntpid just uses the NNTP
protocol which conveniently lets you retrieve messages by ID. I have
no idea why some newsreaders make that hard...

>btw: do you have a link to the nntpid source?
>(CP & FU set to erm, uk.net)

I think Matthew is referring to this version:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=chiark-utils.git;a=blob;f=scripts/nntpid;;hb=HEAD

It turns out that we (the various authors of and contributors to
nntpid) have accidentally forked it. It was originally by Simon
Tatham and I think we are going to switch to his version RSN, but I
don't have a URL for that right now.

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[Tony]

In uk.net, ijac...@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Ian Jackson) wrote:

>In article <m6t3t6$olb$1...@matrix.darkstorm.co.uk>,
>Tony <to...@darkstorm.co.uk> wrote:

>>btw: do you have a link to the nntpid source?
>>(CP & FU set to erm, uk.net)

>I think Matthew is referring to this version:
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=chiark-utils.git;a=blob;f=scripts/nntpid;;hb=HEAD
>
>It turns out that we (the various authors of and contributors to
>nntpid) have accidentally forked it. It was originally by Simon
>Tatham and I think we are going to switch to his version RSN, but I
>don't have a URL for that right now.

Thanks.
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