XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, alt.msdos.batch.nt   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/2/19 17:45:18, Char Jackson wrote:   
   > On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:31:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026/2/18 18:38:54, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   []   
      
   >>>   The format should be >, i.e.   
   >>>   
   >>>           
   >>   
   >> That one shows in the status line as news:///fl... (yes, three   
   >> slashes!); clicking it had no effect.   
   >   
   > That's expected because you apparently don't have the M-ID extension   
   > installed, which I linked to earlier in this thread.   
      
   Thanks. Copy Message-ID   
   ()   
   said it works with version 68.7.0, so I decided not to risk it, but I   
   have installed Open by Message-ID   
   (),   
   and it works well. (Well, open from database and open from server do;   
   open in browser gives blank if Howard Knight selected, and looks as if   
   it's trying to access the old Google Groups if Google is selected, but   
   the other two options should serve me in a lot of cases.)   
      
   >   
   >> I'm not signed up with 4ax.com (I take it that's a news server); maybe   
   >> it would have if I was. (But it didn't give me any error or anything.)   
   >   
   > No, 4ax.com is the default domain that Forte Agent uses when it creates   
   > a Message-ID. It's not a news server and you can't sign up in any way,   
   > except to use Forte Agent as your newsreader.   
   >   
   Thanks.   
      
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