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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A request, and a question
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:19:48 -0800
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> On 1/28/24 16:17, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
[...]
>> James himself explains it in  <uop3fd$1d8ao$1@dont-email.me> .And it is
>> an example of an incorrectly threaded message : his quotations show that
>> it is meant as a direct response to you but the last item in
>> References:  is  <uje6vv$gei$1@dont-email.me>  which is another post by
>> James.
>
> Those links don't work for me. They are interpreted as mailto:// links,
> and the link itself says not to mail them. I don't know what to do with
> them, and neither do Thunderbird or (when I'm using Google Groups)
> Firefox or Chrome.

Those are Message-IDs, not links.

For example, your article to which I'm replying has this header line:

    Message-ID: <up9ve1$roj9$1@dont-email.me>

There isn't necessarily a good way to look up an article given its
Message-ID.  The newsreader I use, Gnus, has a 'j' command
(gnus-summary-goto-article) that takes either an article number (a
sequential number within a newsgroup, specific to a given NNTP server)
or a Message-ID (should be unique across all of Usenet) as an argument.

I don't know whether Thunderbird has a similar feature.

There's a package called "sinntp", a "tiny non-interactive NNTP client",
that includes a command "nttp-get" that can fetch an article given its
Message-ID (if you specify the server and authentication information).

[...]

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