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   On Wed, 2/18/2026 12:56 PM, Paul wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   And clicking either one of those in Betterbird, reveals a menu item,   
   and selecting the menu item results in the selected message replacing   
   this message on the screen. I don't show that in the picture, merely   
   I report that using the menu item, it seems to work. It seems to be   
   searching the .msf of the newsgroup being viewed first. The delay on   
   this test case was shorter than the launch from the command line, as   
   a command line URI.   
      
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      Paul   
      
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