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From: Sparky on 20 Dec 2009 03:56
> The browser iCab can do it, if you tell it Unison is your newsreader. Just
> enter (for example)
> news:0001HW.C7527BB9005E995AB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org
[...]
Tim Murray

Your example URL works. But mine doesn't.

The message I'm trying to access has a format of
"news:[blahblahblah]@4ax.com". Shouldn't this work? Or do I have to have an
account at 4ax.com in order to retrieve this message?

Thanks.

From: Tim Murray on 20 Dec 2009 12:28
Sparky wrote:
> The message I'm trying to access has a format of
> "news:[blahblahblah]@4ax.com". Shouldn't this work? Or do I have to have
> an account at 4ax.com in order to retrieve this message?
>

I'm going to guess yes, you need an account.

From: Barry Margolin on 20 Dec 2009 13:38
In article
<0001HW.C75326A20086A7C6B08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Sparky <see(a)thesig.net> wrote:

> > The browser iCab can do it, if you tell it Unison is your newsreader. Just
> > enter (for example)
> > news:0001HW.C7527BB9005E995AB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org
> [...]
> Tim Murray
>
> Your example URL works. But mine doesn't.
>
> The message I'm trying to access has a format of
> "news:[blahblahblah]@4ax.com". Shouldn't this work? Or do I have to have an
> account at 4ax.com in order to retrieve this message?

No. 4ax.com is where the message came from, but you should be
downloading the message from your own NNTP server.

It could fail if your NNTP server is missing that message.

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From: John McWilliams on 20 Dec 2009 13:59
Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article
> <0001HW.C75326A20086A7C6B08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Sparky <see(a)thesig.net> wrote:
>
>>> The browser iCab can do it, if you tell it Unison is your newsreader. Just
>>> enter (for example)
>>> news:0001HW.C7527BB9005E995AB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org
>> [...]
>> Tim Murray
>>
>> Your example URL works. But mine doesn't.
>>
>> The message I'm trying to access has a format of
>> "news:[blahblahblah]@4ax.com". Shouldn't this work? Or do I have to have an
>> account at 4ax.com in order to retrieve this message?
>
> No. 4ax.com is where the message came from, but you should be
> downloading the message from your own NNTP server.
>
> It could fail if your NNTP server is missing that message.

Or if your news client doesn't do ID's. Thunderbird doesn't seem to do
them- at least not my version 2.xxxxx on Snow Leopard.

With the advent of Deja News up through much of Google, messages can be
found pretty quickly via search on web, and there's less need to refer
to an old message via a usenet URL- also as most internet connections
are way faster than they used to be, there's less of a need to access a
message in the news feed, concurrent with some news providers keeping a
shorter retention date.

<jollyroger-49EAA2.09582119122009(a)news.individual.net> test to a real
message.
<hgheob$mlo$1(a)news.eternal-september.org> another test link to a real
message on my server.

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john mcwilliams
From: Jean Smith on 20 Dec 2009 14:00
In article <0001HW.C753C8E00001C905F0203648(a)nntp.charter.net>,
Tim Murray <no-spam(a)thankyou.com> wrote:

> Sparky wrote:
> > The message I'm trying to access has a format of
> > "news:[blahblahblah]@4ax.com". Shouldn't this work? Or do I have to have
> > an account at 4ax.com in order to retrieve this message?
> >
>
> I'm going to guess yes, you need an account.

But it's just a message ID for an article posted through AT&T IIRC.
It shoul be on any server unless it has expired. Google might have it then.

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