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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> In USENET, an article is refered to by it's Message-ID. Now, LUGNET
> is not USENET, and here articles are normally refered to by the
> article number on the server. This makes it a bit hard for me (or
> anyone else who reads from the SMTP or NNTP interface) to refer to
> articles.
>
> Say I am writing an article and want to refer to an older article by
> myself or anybody else. I know the Message-ID of the article in
> question, but I cannot find the article number on the LUGNET server
> unless I fire up my dial up connection and start searching for it.
> And with the search function out of order, this is quite hard.
>
> So what I would like is a way to refer to articles on LUGNET by their
> Message-ID. For example something like this:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/message.id/<Message-ID>
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> So that I can simply plug in the Message-ID and post a link to it.
I would really hate to see NNTP Message ID's floating around in HTTP URLs.
A workaround is simply to use a standardized NNTP URL format -- for example:
news://lugnet.com/qrd1yv57q2n.fsf@eos.uio.no
That's postable as-is.
Or, if you want to convert that to an HTTP URL, it's as easy as looking at
the Xref header on the message served directly from the NNTP server, which
in the above case is:
Xref: lugnet.com lugnet.admin.general:8505
and simply transmogrify that into:
http://news.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general,8505
which automagically redirects to:
http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=8505
--Todd
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| (...) I'd hate to see these sorts of references. I'm not always browsing the web interface in a browser that I want the news reader to come up in (and such a reference will be useless to anyone who can't access the nntp server). (...) life a little (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| (...) I wonder why. (...) Great, I'll do that! (...) When I read LUGNET offline at home, the Xref header has the article number on my local news spool. I don't think that number would be too interesting for anybody else. Fredrik (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| In USENET, an article is refered to by it's Message-ID. Now, LUGNET is not USENET, and here articles are normally refered to by the article number on the server. This makes it a bit hard for me (or anyone else who reads from the SMTP or NNTP (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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