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From: Sparky on 16 Dec 2009 11:14
If someone posts a link to a news message in the format:

news:9abcde8fghij7klmno6pqrst5uvwxy.com

what newsreader for OS X will be able to open this message?

The apps I looked at have no mechanism for pasting in this link.

Thanks.

From: Tom Harrington on 16 Dec 2009 11:59
In article
<0001HW.C74E4768011A956EB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Sparky <see(a)thesig.net> wrote:

> If someone posts a link to a news message in the format:
>
> news:9abcde8fghij7klmno6pqrst5uvwxy.com
>
> what newsreader for OS X will be able to open this message?
>
> The apps I looked at have no mechanism for pasting in this link.
>
> Thanks.

MT-Newswatcher can.

Your link points to a group not available on my server, but if I
construct one for your message it works just fine:

news:0001HW.C74E4768011A956EB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org

BTW this is not a MIME type, it's a URL scheme.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: John McWilliams on 16 Dec 2009 12:34
Tom Harrington wrote:
> In article
> <0001HW.C74E4768011A956EB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Sparky <see(a)thesig.net> wrote:
>
>> If someone posts a link to a news message in the format:
>>
>> news:9abcde8fghij7klmno6pqrst5uvwxy.com
>>
>> what newsreader for OS X will be able to open this message?
>>
>> The apps I looked at have no mechanism for pasting in this link.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> MT-Newswatcher can.
>
> Your link points to a group not available on my server, but if I
> construct one for your message it works just fine:
>
> news:0001HW.C74E4768011A956EB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org
>
> BTW this is not a MIME type, it's a URL scheme.

Indeed.
I can confirm that Thunderbird does not handle such URLs, (and I'm on
the same provider as Tom), but my experience is that such references are
few and far between, and my desire to go to a message so linked averages
just above 0. Do you run across such frequently?

--
John McWilliams
From: Sparky on 16 Dec 2009 13:23
> Do you run across such frequently?

No. But when I do it's frustrating to not be able to retrieve that bit of
information.

It's not often enough to change my newsreader app to MTNW but it's nice to
have another tool for this.

Thanks.

From: Barry Margolin on 16 Dec 2009 16:34
In article
<gotermite-0DFB1E.12190916122009(a)feeder.eternal-september.org>,
Jean Smith <gotermite(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <0001HW.C74E4768011A956EB08A39AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Sparky <see(a)thesig.net> wrote:
>
> > news:9abcde8fghij7klmno6pqrst5uvwxy.com
>
> That group does not exist.

It's not a real message ID, just an example of the URL scheme. Notice
that the letters are the entire alphabet in order, and there's no @.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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