XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-xp, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Paul  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 2/17/2026 8:07 PM, Char Jackson wrote:   
   > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:43:40 -0500, Paul  wrote:   
   [...]   
   > >> 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.   
      
      
     The format should be >, i.e.   
      
             
      
     The 'news;' part is required, otherwise it's ambiguous, because it   
   also looks like an e-mail address.   
      
     It's defined in the schemes for URI, in whatever the correct RFC might   
   be these days. I.e. like 'http://' for a web URL, 'mailto:' for an   
   e-mail address, etc..   
      
     Some newsreaders try to do the right thing when the scheme  part is   
   absent, but > is the only correct way. We'll see if   
   Thunderbird et al understand it.   
      
     AND, there of course is still the issue that the newsreader must be   
   able to actually fetch ('article'/'head'/'body'commands) the article/   
   headers/body. I.e. like an 'http://' URL might fail, so might a 'news:'   
   one, for all kinds of reasons.   
      
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