Re: A request, and a question

From	Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: A request, and a question
Date	2024-01-30 20:50 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<20240130123802.569@kylheku.com> (permalink)
References	<86h6ixcj2c.fsf@linuxsc.com> <ACClDmHp8lLCxWc1B@bongo-ra.co> <up9ve1$roj9$1@dont-email.me> <20240129214606.542@kylheku.com> <87jznr5mk6.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com>

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On 2024-01-30, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2024-01-30, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> You have to find the feature in your NNTP client which retrieves a
>> Usenet article by Message-ID, and paste that into its UI, possibly after
>> manually removing the delimiting angle brackets.
>
> The angle brackets are actually part of the Message-ID.  (Some software
> might let them be omitted.)

If true, that is surprising; but it doesn't sound right. The angle brackets are
just a delimiter used when the ID appears in headers, similarly to brackets
around e-mail addresses.

Indeed, RFC 2392:

     Notes: In Internet mail messages, the addr-spec in a Content-ID
     [MIME] or Message-ID [822] header is enclosed in angle brackets
     (<>).   [Section 2. The MID and CID Url Schemes]

Elsewhere in the document, the grammar doesn't mention the angle
brackets.

An NNTP client should definitely accept a Message ID without the angle
brackets. To be user-friendly, it should strip them if they are present.
This is similar to accepting e-mail addresses with or without
angle brackets. you can compose a message to foo@example.com or
to Foo Bar <foo@example.com>, and the latter should be accepted
even without the display name.

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    Re: A request, and a question Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-01-29 11:36 -0800
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      Re: A request, and a question Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-01-30 14:59 +0200
      Re: A request, and a question Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 16:47 +0000
    Re: A request, and a question James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2024-01-29 23:54 -0500
      Re: A request, and a question Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-01-29 21:19 -0800
        Re: A request, and a question Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-01-30 00:45 -0500
        Re: A request, and a question Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 12:49 -0800
      Re: A request, and a question Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-01-30 05:48 +0000
        Re: A request, and a question Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-01-29 23:04 -0800
          Re: A request, and a question Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-01-30 20:50 +0000
            Re: A request, and a question Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 13:06 -0800
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                Re: A request, and a question Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 13:44 -0800
                Re: A request, and a question Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2024-02-03 09:17 -0500
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      Re: A request, and a question David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-01-30 09:54 +0100
        Re: A request, and a question mjos_examine <m6502x64@gmail.com> - 2024-01-30 09:53 -0500
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  Re: A request, and a question Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-01-29 00:26 +0000
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