Re: why graphical screenshot? from a command prompt console window?

On 2026/2/18 18:38:54, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
[]

>>       <[email protected]>
>>
>>      mid:[email protected]
>>
>> And maybe one of those strings will work. We'll see.
> 
With my Thunderbird (140.7.1esr (64-bit)), hovering over either of those
(they do show in blue) shows them with "mailto:" prepended in the status
line, and actually clicking on them opens an email window; presumably it
noticed the @ sign and reacted accordingly, but ...
> 
>   The format should be <news:<MID>>, i.e.
> 
>        <news:[email protected]>

That one shows in the status line as news:///fl... (yes, three
slashes!); clicking it had no effect.
> 
>   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..
> 
>   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.

Not the (almost-)current one.
> 
>   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.

I'm not signed up with 4ax.com (I take it that's a news server); maybe
it would have if I was. (But it didn't give me any error or anything.)

Actually, I've just noticed that it not only converts news:fl into
news:...fl in my status line, but adds something like "downloading
messages to drafts" after the @4ax.com; I have to say "something like",
because it has changed while I was typing this: what I _now_ see in the
status line when I hover of it is "news:[email protected] No messages to
download". It does - including the <> - turn from blue to red briefly
while I'm actually clicking on it (i. e. while the mouse button is pressed).

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