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

Char Jackson <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:45:18 -0600
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:31:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>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.

That's expected because you apparently don't have the M-ID extension
installed, which I linked to earlier in this thread.

>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.)

No, 4ax.com is the default domain that Forte Agent uses when it creates
a Message-ID. It's not a news server and you can't sign up in any way,
except to use Forte Agent as your newsreader.