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From: Barry Margolin on 20 Dec 2009 22:53
In article <hgls72$5r3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.

But he said that one ID worked, but another didn't. If the news client
doesn't do IDs, neither of them would work.

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