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| From | Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: A request, and a question |
| Date | 2024-01-30 12:49 -0800 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <87plxi4kdw.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <86h6ixcj2c.fsf@linuxsc.com> <ACClDmHp8lLCxWc1B@bongo-ra.co> <up9ve1$roj9$1@dont-email.me> <87o7d35rez.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> |
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
> 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$1@dont-email.me>
>
> There isn't necessarily a good way to look up an article given its
> Message-ID. The newsreader I use, Gnus, has a 'j' command
> (gnus-summary-goto-article) that takes either an article number (a
> sequential number within a newsgroup, specific to a given NNTP server)
> or a Message-ID (should be unique across all of Usenet) as an argument.
>
> I don't know whether Thunderbird has a similar feature.
>
> There's a package called "sinntp", a "tiny non-interactive NNTP client",
> that includes a command "nttp-get" that can fetch an article given its
> Message-ID (if you specify the server and authentication information).
>
> [...]
In what I presume was a misdirected email, James Kuyper wrote:
Thunderbird displays them as clickable links. When I use Google
Groups to view the message, Firefox and Chrome both display them as
clickable links. Unfortunately, they don't work. It's those links I
was talking about.
Right, that's not surprising. They're not links, but they look like
links, and Thunderbird incorrectly treats them as links.
Email addresses are commonly written in the form <user@example.com>, so
programs like Thunderbird will recognize that format and makes them
clickable.
Usenet Message-IDs are commonly of the form <arbitrary-text@example.com>,
so they look like email addresses. (I don't think "up9ve1$roj9$1" is a
valid user name, but Thunderbird might not check that.) It's likely
that Thunderbird assumes the angle brackets are decoration, and treats
only the text between them as a link.
Given the similarity, false positives are almost inevitable. The
alternative would be to recognize email addresses only in "mailto:"
URLs, but that would be user-hostile.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
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