On Sat, 07 Sep 2013 03:02:46 -0400, ...winston wrote:

Using the 'news:' prefix in front of the Message ID is the route I
learned long ago (never used it much but when necessary it has always
proved to be the most productive).

What's stumping me is why it works in 4oTude and MesNews (for you), WLM
(for me) but not in SeaMonkey (for me).

This sub thread has gotten too detailed & complicated for me to reply in
a reasonable fashion to all of it, so I'll just remark on one thing :-)

I don't have any actual *knowledge* of these protocols. The "news:"
prefix is analogous obviously to the "http://" and other protocol
prefixes, but it might work better if you highlighted the MID part alone
or pasted it (without the prefix) somewhere. For instance, my reader has
a place to paste a link in its menus, under Edit - Find a Message-ID,
although just clicking on your links in both formats works fine in the
original message display, but not in the follow-up editing pane.

It's a can of worms, and not all that appetizing, I'd say :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)