Posted by Brian Cryer on 03/02/06 14:48

"Brian Cryer" <brianc@127.0.0.1.activesol.co.uk> wrote in message
news:p7ydnVOR77lKQZvZRVny2A@pipex.net...
> 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).
>
> I know how to link to a newsgroup:
>
> a href="news:some-newsgroup
>
> I also know how to specify the server:
>
> a href="news://some-server/some-newsgroup
>
> is it also possible to specify the article id/reference that I'm
> interested in? I came across one reference that indicated it might be
> possible, but with no details. If its not possible then that would be
> useful to know, because I won't search any further.
>
> Thanks in advance.

I've found it - RFC 1036. Not quite what I was hoping for.

news:<message-id>

but this won't open the newsreader, it just opens the message (presumably
using the default news account) and allows you to reply to the sender not
the group - or at least that's the behaviour I've just observed on Windows.

So much for my hope of clicking on a link to open a newsgroup reader at a
specific article ... Dylan, your suggestion of using Toby's site and Google
groups may be the only way of doing it.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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