Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/23/07 09:06

Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> Not for me it doesn't, Toby. Thunderbird tells Firefox to load it with
> the extra chars.

The "extra chars" (by which, I'm assuming you mean the angled brackets) are
*part* of the message ID. Note the Message-ID header of this message: it
starts with a '<' and ends with a '>'.

If you copy and paste the following URL into a browser (all of it,
including the angled brackets), you should see it works:

http://message-id.net/<2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>

The following will also work

http://message-id.net/2r0v64-o98.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk

but only because the PHP code at message-id.net is smart enough to
transparently add on the angled brackets. However, in the case of
Message-IDs that don't contain an at-sign (and some older newsreaders
would produce articles that didn't), the second URL wouldn't work, as
Message-ID.net uses the presence of either an at-sign or angled brackets to
detect if the URL contains a Message-ID.

Compare:
http://message-id.net/<anews.Aucbarpa.111>
http://message-id.net/anews.Aucbarpa.111

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