kangaroo16 wrote:
[...]
> Message-ID:
>
> If using most newsreaders, readers should simply be able to
> click on this link to read it. Alternatively, they can select
> the advanced search function on Google and simply copy and paste
> into the space provided.
A better way would be:
"news:" is the official format of a News URL [1], i.e.
like "http://site" is for a web URL. The outer '<' and '>' are used to
properly delimit the URL from the rest of the text.
While your format might work in some newsreaders, one can not depend
on it, because it is non-standard. I.e. what you posted is the format of
a "Message-ID:" *header* *in* a News (or mail) *article*, not of a News
URL.
HTH. HAND.
[1] RFC 1738 "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)" (and later)
3.6. NEWS
The news URL scheme is used to refer to either news groups or
individual articles of USENET news, as specified in RFC 1036.
A news URL takes one of two forms:
news:
news:
A is a period-delimited hierarchical name, such as
"comp.infosystems.www.misc". A corresponds to the
Message-ID of section 2.1.5 of RFC 1036, without the enclosing "<"
and ">"; it takes the form @. A message
identifier may be distinguished from a news group name by the
presence of the commercial at "@" character. No additional characters
are reserved within the components of a news URL.
If is "*" (as in ), it is used to refer
to "all available news groups".
The news URLs are unusual in that by themselves, they do not contain
sufficient information to locate a single resource, but, rather, are
location-independent.
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