Hmm.. thanks for the interesting info. I was basing my conclusions on bug 102902 <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102902> and it's dupes/relations.
J.B. Moreno wrote: > 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. > >
