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   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 2/17/2026 8:07 PM, Char Jackson wrote:   
   > On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:43:40 -0500, Paul  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 2/17/2026 5:01 AM, R.Wieser wrote:   
   >>> Mr. Man-wai Chang,   
   >>>   
   >>>> But that's a different newsgroup. Not a good idea in terms of discussion.   
   >>>   
   >>> And uploading a file to another, completely unrelated server is better ?   
   :-p   
   >>>   
   >>> But yes, people would need to be aware that responding to the post with the   
   >>> attachment would do little good.  Just like an uploader would need to be   
   >>> aware that file servers have their own rules and hurdles (cough,   
   javascript,   
   >>> cough) for anyone wanting to take a peek at their upload.   
   >>>   
   >>>> You also need a way to tell others to go that newsgroup to see the image   
   >>>> by what, message-id? :)   
   >>>   
   >>> Thats the same problem as with those image/file servers.   
   >>>   
   >>> I could imagine prefixing the name of image with the subject of the thread   
   >>> its referred from.    Perhaps with the posters name appended.   Or even   
   just   
   >>> the posters name.   
   >>>   
   >>> Regards,   
   >>> Rudy Wieser   
   >>   
   >> The M-ID would work, but only for M-ID enabled News Clients.   
   >> Betterbird or Thunderbird, may be about to gain this function.   
   >   
   > I assume you mean natively.   
      
   Yes, a native method.   
      
   Betterbird Portable  140.7.1esr-bb18 (64-bit)   
      
   betterbirdlauncher "mid:fl3apkhbefiie5ivaljrb6n8f9nghclsf9@4ax.com"   
      
   Somehow, it knows which server out of six in my list to use.   
   On purpose, I "selected" a non-functional server, to try to confuse it,   
   and eventually it still opened a window on the server where the message exists.   
      
   Whether it is doing this, via searching all the Mork Summary Files .msf,   
   I don't know. It might mean, that one of the requirements would be for   
   the user to have all their server message lists up-to-date.   
      
   My first concern, was of the MID URI design. I figured it should   
   have the server name, followed by a MID string. But the above syntax worked.   
      
   It worked on that example.   
      
   I did NOT (so far), see a menu item added for this. It likely would work   
   with a MID buried in a message, so we should leave one here later for test.   
   If this feature was working well, I should be able to click one of these   
   that looks sufficiently like a URI and a separate tab should open after   
   you actuate it.   
      
            
      
        mid:fl3apkhbefiie5ivaljrb6n8f9nghclsf9@4ax.com   
      
   And maybe one of those strings will work. We'll see.   
      
      Paul   
      
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