ANNC: Gimp Release and Direction

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Blinky said:
Message-ID: [email protected]
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That message ID appears as a clickable link in OE, and when I click on it, I
get a Compose Mail window. Exactly what should happen when I click on the
link? I would be interested in reading a post with that subject. When I
put the Message ID into Google, Google gave me only Blinky's post.
 
Spoon2001 said:
Blinky the Shark wrote:
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That message ID appears as a clickable link in OE, and when I click on
it, I get a Compose Mail window. Exactly what should happen when I
click on the
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Your news client is broken. It should be taken to the message having
that Message-ID.

Your software also seems to have removed the angle-brackets that
surround the MID. The line should read (as originally posted, and as
*corrected*, above):

Message-ID: <[email protected]>
 
That message ID appears as a clickable link in OE, and when I
click on it, I get a Compose Mail window. Exactly what should
happen when I click on the link? I would be interested in reading
a post with that subject.
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MIDs are not URLs, and programs can only guess whether they might be
MIDs or e-mail addies, as the formats are the same. They can be
turned into URLs, though. Try clicking
When I put the Message ID into Google, Google gave me only
Blinky's post.
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That's what'll happen if you use the main Google Groups
search box, since Google will just look for that string in the bodies
of messages. If you want to find a post by MID, you have to go to the
advanced group search page.

<http://groups.google.com/[email protected]>
 
»Q« said:
MIDs are not URLs, and programs can only guess whether they might be
MIDs or e-mail addies, as the formats are the same. They can be
turned into URLs, though. Try clicking
news:[email protected].
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That ass-umes (makes an ass out of u and me) that that is the default
newsgroup server.
That's what'll happen if you use the main Google Groups
search box, since Google will just look for that string in the bodies
of messages. If you want to find a post by MID, you have to go to the
advanced group search page.
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http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
 
MIDs are not URLs, and programs can only guess whether they might be
That ass-umes (makes an ass out of u and me) that that is the default
newsgroup server.
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Didn't work for me, either. Got a message, "Outlook Express [I know, I
know] could not download the requested message. It is likely that the
message was removed or expired from the server".
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Now that DID work. Thanks for the tip!
 
That was OE-Quotefix that removed the angle brackets. But even when I
click on the bracketed link, still OE pops up a send mail window with
the MID in the To: field. Maybe OE is broken, or maybe that's just the
way OE is built? It would certainly be nice to click on a MID and have
my news client take me there.
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Works with XNews

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If you truly want to contact me click the link
http://quantum.2ya.com/email.htm
 
Spoon2001 said:
That ass-umes (makes an ass out of u and me) that that is the default
newsgroup server.
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Didn't work for me, either. Got a message, "Outlook Express [I know,
I know] could not download the requested message. It is likely that the
message was removed or expired from the server".
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I use 5 newsgroup servers. I receive this message when I do not set the
server that I want to see the the message from is not the default server.
I guess the Forte Agent newsreader folk are totaly confused by this?
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Now that DID work. Thanks for the tip!
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The marvels of Google!
 
»Q« said:
Assumes that what is the default newsgroup server?
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Hmmm. No idea what newsreader you use. So can not offer an answer. I
use 5 news servers so when I want to see a reference on that server I have
to insure that it is the default news server so that my newsreader knows
what news server to go to.

BTW, news servers are: my ISP NNTP server, news.spamcop.net, news.grc.com,
news.anderas.net, msnews.microsoft.com
 
That was OE-Quotefix that removed the angle brackets. But even when I click
on the bracketed link, still OE pops up a send mail window with the MID in
the To: field. Maybe OE is broken, or maybe that's just the way OE is
built? It would certainly be nice to click on a MID and have my news client
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Built broken. All one thing.
take me there.
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I don't blame you.
 
Hmmm. No idea what newsreader you use. So can not offer an
answer. I use 5 news servers so when I want to see a reference
on that server I have to insure that it is the default news server
so that my newsreader knows what news server to go to.
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Iswym. The reader I most often use, Xnews, looks not to the default
server but to whatever server I'm reading from at the time. (I think
if such a link is clicked from another app, like a browser, Xnews will
look to the default server.) If Xnews does not find the article, it
offers to search Google Groups for it, a nice feature. I wish that it
also would pop up a dialog asking me if I'd like to search some other
server for the MID as well.

There is a way to specify the hostname using an alternate type of news
URL. It's useless for Usenet, but could be useful for articles on
other servers. I last saw it in some URL specification draft, and I
don't know what's in the current RFCs. Out of curiosity about how OE
handles them, does

<
take you to a post of mine in the grc.test group? And/or does

<
take you to the test group on that server?
 
»Q« said:
Iswym. The reader I most often use, Xnews, looks not to the default
server but to whatever server I'm reading from at the time. (I think
if such a link is clicked from another app, like a browser, Xnews will
look to the default server.) If Xnews does not find the article, it
offers to search Google Groups for it, a nice feature. I wish that it
also would pop up a dialog asking me if I'd like to search some other
server for the MID as well.

There is a way to specify the hostname using an alternate type of news
URL. It's useless for Usenet, but could be useful for articles on
other servers. I last saw it in some URL specification draft, and I
don't know what's in the current RFCs. Out of curiosity about how OE
handles them, does

news://news.grc.com/[email protected]
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What I see:
< Hi, YK!
<
<--
<;Q+
take you to a post of mine in the grc.test group? And/or does

<
take you to the test group on that server?
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So yes and yes.
 
»Q« said:
MIDs are not URLs, and programs can only guess whether they might be
MIDs or e-mail addies, as the formats are the same. They can be
turned into URLs, though. Try clicking
<
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<snip>

Now this worked!

Andy
 
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