From: clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:26:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Reply-to-all when using gmane's web interface
Message-ID: <veocm7xqu5.ln2@nntp.spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100825223024.GB2850@burratino>

(sorry to be late)

On Thu-2010/08/26-00:30 Jonathan Nieder wrote in gmane.discuss:

> (+cc: git@, gmane-discuss@)

f'up set to gmane.discuss.

> At any rate, here is my current (cumbersome) strategy for replying
> to a message from the web archive.
> 
> 1. Find the message (in the classic news.gmane.org view).
> 
> 2. Click the subject in the upper pane.  The message shows up
>    in the lower pane.
> 
> 3. Click the subject in the lower pane.  Now the upper pane
>    shows the relevant thread.
> 
> 4. Examine the URL:
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/154241/focus=154296
>    Where n is the number after "focus=", rewrite it to
>    http://download.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/<n>/<n + 1>
> 
> 5. Download that message:
>    $ wget http://download.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/154296/154297
> 
> 6. Open in mail client and reply as usual.
>    $ mutt -f 154297

I know of a patch to mutt allowing to access NNTP servers directly.  In
general, I don't know why people would want to use anything but NNTP to
access gmane.org.


clemens