Beverly Howard wrote:
> If you paste the message id into any mozilla browser address window,
> it pulls up the message... for example, your message;
>
news://public.msnews.microsoft.com:1...TNGP05.phx.gbl
>
> ie won't (can't) do the same, but, depending on your file association
> settings, pasting it into ie will result in ie calling outlook
> express... however, since outlook express is brain dead, the ":119"
> has to be removed first.

Just wondering:
Where does the "119" come from? Is it part if the original MID?

> I use the current incarnation of the "mozilla suite" which includes
> browser, email client, newsreader, html editor and several other
> tools... the email client and newsreader are very powerful and have a
> good interface... there are several options in the newsreader that no
> other newsreader provides such as "threads with unread" (see,
> http://bevhoward.com/moz.htm#News) which saves an unbelievable amount
> of time.

Thanks for the pointer.
So far I have not been using any other browser than Netscape (initially)
and then IE (now IE8 the which causes problems with opening attachments
in WinMail on my systems).

> As for threads, running seamonkey from the command line with the /n
> switch and message id used to open the message in the seamonkey
> newsreader, but that no longer works. You can, however, use the
> information from the message in the browser to get to that newsgroup
> and filter down to the specific message and thread.

Seems rather complicated :-( :-(

> did this finally connect with what you were asking?

Unfortunately not at all :-( :-(

What I am after:
a) Searching in the mirrored groups with Google and restricting the
search to certain groups (f.e. all of microsoft.public.de.windows.vista)
with using a URL;

b) Calling a certain thread in a mirrored group by it's name using a
URL;

c) Calling a certain news message in mirrored group using its MID in an
URL.

But AFAICS that's TOT in here.

Rainald