arlen michael holder wrote:
On 17 Nov 2018 14:48:31 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Not that it matters much, but I don't think I said that.

Hi Frank,
Happy mid-month Nanowrimo party day!

You clearly said you had a solution that I "ignored".

As I said in the other thread where you posted crap about me [1],
you're confusing two different and totally unrelated topics.

[1]

Subject: Philosophically, how do you "organize" two monitors (only applicable to those of you with dual monitors)
Newsgroups: alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.ge neral]

[Usual obnoxious, pompous and *incorrect* ****tery deleted.]

You apparently missed - or don't remember - my recent (October 22)
response to you about what I use to backup my Android devices, so here's
the news URL of my post. And yes, it ticks all your boxes. Have fun.

news

Given that message id, and planting it into the search engine...
Message-ID: news

It's a news URL. The message-ID is the part after 'news:'.

I've asked you before if you knew what a news URL is. You dodged the
question and hence missed an opportunity to learn. So now you failed
again. There's a lesson there somewhere.

So here we go:

A news URL can have several formats. The format used here is:

news:message-ID

'' and '' are the normal URL delimiters.

'news:' indicates that it's a news (NetNews) URL, in the same vein
(sp?) as 'http:' indicates a 'web' URL.

Note that I spelled 'message-ID' with a lower case 'm', because it is
the *content* of the 'Message-ID:' header, not the name of the header.

It's less ambiguous to use 'news:MID', but if one uses that, most
people ask "What does 'MID' mean?" and the whole thing starts over
again.

So specifically:

The header in my post is:

Message-ID:

From that we take the 'message-ID/MID':



And now we convert the 'message-ID/MID' into a news URL by
inserting/prepending 'news:':

news
Which is what I gave you.

What am I doing wrong in searching to find it?
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2544251howardknight.jpg

You left the 'news:' bit in.

Am I working hard enough yet for your solution Frank?

Don't be a prat! With your attitude, there's no justification for you
to try to be funny.

(Why can't you simply post the URL to it like I always do?)
http://tinyurl.com/comp-mobile-android
http://comp.mobile.android.narkive.com

Because it's a news URL, there's no need to search for it, because
your newsreader should be able to show it to you (assuming it's not
expired from your news server). Figure that, a newsreader actually
showing news articles! What *will* they think of next!? A webbrowser
showing webpages!?

Like for a web ('http:') URL, you don't search for it, you just
'execute' it. Same thing with a news URL.

In your defense, but not an excuse for dodging my question: You're not
the only one who doesn't know how handle a news URL or/and how to look
up an article with their newsreader, given a news URL.

If you're still using Dialog as your newsreader 'behind the scenes',
look in it's documenation on how to lookup/display an article via/from a
news URL or ask in news.software readers.

Moral: Despite your usual drawing first blood, I spent cinsiderable
time and effort to teach you stuff which you didn't know. Now show to
appreciate my effort.