In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Ruppel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Yeah, I'm not sure, but I know that searching newsgroups has to be 
> supported by the newsgroup server, so perhaps newsgroup servers that do 
> support searching only support searching through name and subjects.

Newsgroups that support searching (on the server side) do so via Xpat.

In any case it will /NOT/ be limited to just From and Subject -- if
it's available at all it will include at /least/ those headers returned
by XOVER.

Some servers don't support it at all, some only allow searching in
XOVER headers and some allow searching any header.

But filtering in most newsreaders isn't done via asking the server to
only return articles which match a given criteria, but by the client
requesting the headers to be filtered on and then the filter is applied
by the client.  This is most commonly done via XOVER, with XHDR running
a distant second.

-- 
J.B. Moreno

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