Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
> Tim Weaver <tmw99999@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9B75A421E286F0Z0thecheeseclub0Z0@aries.weretis.net:
>
>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>
>>> Tim Weaver <tmw99999@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns9B7582694EFDC0Z0thecheeseclub0Z0@aries.weretis.net:
>>>
>>>> Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Tim Weaver <tmw99999@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns9B74B1CBFE2A50Z0thecheeseclub0Z0@aries.weretis.net:
>>>>>
>>>>>> mimus wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:13:45 +0000, Bluuuue Rajah wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is there a news client that gives any way to search large
>>>>>>>> numbers of headers at once?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dunno.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But if your news-server implements RFC2980, you can use telnet to
>>>>>>> do an XPAT search of the subject headers in the newsgroup
>>>>>>> articles in a specified newsgroup on the server (accessing a
>>>>>>> news-server with telnet is a mild form of geek-fun) . . . .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or you can use various search tools to search your downloaded
>>>>>>> headers-lists (simple text-editor might do, depending on how the
>>>>>>> list is stored by your news-client) or articles (grep etc.,
>>>>>>> ditto).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And there's always Google ("I'm Feeling Lucky") Groups.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He is using Xnews. Xnews uses XPAT to reconstruct threads, which
>>>>>> I find highly useful, and the header/body window has a header
>>>>>> search box. The only down side is that Xnews is an online reader
>>>>>> so he'd have to repull a lot of headers. Unless it's going into
>>>>>> the score file for future pulls.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I get this "header/body window" to come up?
>>>>
>>>> By opening a group. You're looking at it right now, as you read
>>>> this.
>>>
>>> Is it on the menu bar?
>>
>> It's at the bottom of the window, just to the left of the status bar
>> that advances (red) as data comes in be it headers or bodies. It's
>> the only text box there. There's a "T" button to the left of it which
>> threads or dethreads the headers and an "S" button to the right which,
>> if you right- click it, will change to an "F" to sort headers
>> respectively by "Subject" or "From". A left-click will clear the
>> field and show all the headers you currently have pulled.
>
> That doesn't search the entire header. It only searchs "from" and
> "subject." I want to search the paths.
Then you'll have to write a custom score file entry. See the "scoring.txt",
"sample-score.ini" and "manual.html" in the Xnews folder.
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