Posted by Brian Cryer on 03/02/06 14:29

"Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
news:3f0395ft0i24.dlg@dylanparry.com...
> Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Brian Cryer
> finally proclaimed:
>
>> What I would like to be able to do is to link to a specific newsgroup
>> article (ok, I know that articles may not be held a newsgroup server for
>> more than a couple of weeks depending on the newsgroup).
>
> Totally ignoring the rest of your post, have you thought of linking to
> the articles as they are presented at Google Groups? Toby Inkster set up
> a nice site for doing just that (http://message-id.net/) where you can
> link directly to articles by their ID.
>
> --
> Dylan Parry
> http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

Hi Dylan,

Thanks for the idea. That's certainly quite clever of Toby.

What I'd really like though is to be able to direct someone to a (recent)
article and have it open in their newsreader.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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