Re: why graphical screenshot? from a command prompt console window?
Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> 18 Feb 2026 19:02:16 GMT
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A little earlier, I wrote: [...] > The format should be <news:<MID>>, i.e. > > <news:[email protected]> > > The 'news;' part is required, otherwise it's ambiguous, because it > also looks like an e-mail address. > > It's defined in the schemes for URI, in whatever the correct RFC might > be these days. I.e. like 'http://' for a web URL, 'mailto:' for an > e-mail address, etc.. I did a quick Google search on 'where is the 'news:' scheme defined' and Google's 'AI Overview' says it's primarily defined in RFC 5538 and gives some examples: Format Examples news:[email protected] (refers to a specific article). (i.e. the format I gave) news:comp.lang.python (refers to a newsgroup). news:* (refers to all available newsgroups). Optional Authority: A server can be specified (e.g., news://news.example.com/example.group), but if omitted, it defaults to the user's configured news server. 'RFC 5538 The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes, April 2010' <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5538> 2010, so should have settled by now! :-) > Some newsreaders try to do the right thing when the scheme part is > absent, but <news:<MID>> is the only correct way. We'll see if > Thunderbird et al understand it. Nope, my stone-age version (60.9.0) doesn;t. > AND, there of course is still the issue that the newsreader must be > able to actually fetch ('article'/'head'/'body'commands) the article/ > headers/body. I.e. like an 'http://' URL might fail, so might a 'news:' > one, for all kinds of reasons.