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Re: Message-ID -> Article number
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:46:06 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> writes:

I would really hate to see NNTP Message ID's floating around in HTTP URLs.

I wonder why.


A workaround is simply to use a standardized NNTP URL format -- for example:

    news://lugnet.com/qrd1yv57q2n.fsf@eos.uio.no

Great, I'll do that!


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

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



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(...) 1) They're gunky looking. 2) They contain no useful information to a human. 3) They can be very, very long. I've seen some here bigger than 80 characters in length. That makes them unsuitable for URLs. 4) The thought of putting NNTP ID's in an (...) (24 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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[redirecting to .admin.nntp] (...) 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/qr...eos.uio.no That's postable as-is. Or, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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