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"Robert Aldwinckle" a écrit dans le message de news:
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"Michel Merlin" wrote in message

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QP
NNTP links in OE or 40tude Dialog (HTML)Thanks for your reply - and your
useful link. However, after first being happy thinking it
brought a solution, I was finally disappointed seeing it did not. Says
your link:

« ...and thus nntp URLs do not designate globally accessible resources.
Thus, the news: form of URL is preferred as a way of
identifying news articles ».
/QP

Which has never made any sense to me. The news: link means that
A) the user needs to know of and use an NNTP server
B) the server that the user currently is using has that Message-ID cached
How does that make it "globally accessible"? At least the nntp URL
syntax allows a poster to provide a link to where the message once
resided.
Whether it was moved in that cache and might still be accessible
on that server using its Message-ID is another matter. eg

QP
And for the "news: form of URL", they are not "universal" either; my
numerous personal tests over years, and the few examples in the
current thread, are enough to make me think (so far, and while waiting for
further useful examples from you or anyone) that
addresses starting with "news" fail to work in too many cases to deserve
anything like "universal"; I found none working in more
cases than the ones I am using (see "Parent Message" headers in all my
posts), which I would not call "universal" at all. Hence my
(rather short I admit) phrase "there is no URL (Universal Resource
Locator) in *news*".

I tested your links:

nttp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke
nttp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlooke xpress/336180

Pasting the 1st one in the IE address bar does (in my case) bring the
correct item,
/QP

Because you are using OE. That link takes advantage of OE's error.

QP
pasting the 2nd fails.
/QP

Again, because you are using OE. The link was constructed to be used
by newsreaders which conform to the RFC.

QP
Both are not clickable in OE6 or IE6 (I didn't test in FF or TB), and
little known, hence IMO not reliable enough so far for daily
use with tiers. In OE there is no default-prepared "nntp" suffix
/QP

Typo for prefix? ; )

QP
(OE only offers "file", "ftp", "gopher", "http", "https", "mailto",
"news", "telnet", "wais"); when writing in HTML (see HTML
version of this post below) I can edit this address into an "nntp" link,
but it doesn't work (opens an IE window with a 404 "The
page cannot be displayed").
/QP

Then you probably made a typo with the URL syntax. ; )

QP
I find it interesting though, and will consider it some time.

BTW, what do you call "WM"?
/QP

WM = Windows Mail, Vista's successor to OE

BTW I haven't reflowed your Quoted Printable on this reply either... ; }

Robert
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