A tower-induced go-round

Recently, Larry Dighera posted:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:25:34 GMT, Jose
wrote in :

If you include the Message-ID of the article to which you are
following up in the attribution, it makes it easy for everyone to
find.

How does one use the message ID (other than on google)?


With my newsreader client, Forte Agent, you just right-click on the
message-id and select Launch, and it jumps to that message.

That technique does nothing useful in Outlook Express. I'd rather see
proper attributions in posts, as even using the "Show all Messages" option
is limited by the server mirroring the NG. If it only caches a relatively
small number of messages, the original source message may be clipped.

Neil

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:14:58 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
:

That technique does nothing useful in Outlook Express.


I'll bet OE renders all the html messages just fine for you though,
even following all the hyperlinks they contain for you (whether you
want it to or not).

Recently, Larry Dighera posted:

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:14:58 GMT, "Neil Gould"
wrote in
:

That technique does nothing useful in Outlook Express.


I'll bet OE renders all the html messages just fine for you though,
even following all the hyperlinks they contain for you (whether you
want it to or not).

It may, if you set it to do so, I wouldn't know. I have always set OE to
"Plain Text", so all that stuff gets stripped.

Neil