Grant Robertson shared these words of wisdom:
Thanks for your suggestions, Grant.
I just would have needed a link for to one of my own threads tonight
when posting a reply to you ;-)
Of course the easiest way is to use google groups.
Yes, but that's not what I'm looking for.
... However, this
always requires you to be connected to the internet to see the
message.
Not only that.
Old fashioned in the style of working I simply do not like the
we-based fora/groups at all.
I need the stuff in a newsreader where I have it all together, can
jump up and down, mark postings and colour them, etc., etc.
I have seen hyperlinks to newsgroup messages in other newsgroup
messages. I think they start with "news://"
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
[...] Depending on the features of your newsreader, clicking on a
link like this should open up your default newsreader and go to
that message if you have it on your machine.
That's exactly what I am after.
I tried it out and played with it (all the "pros" in my old main NG
used it). But after a while I returned to OE - mainly because of
wanting to have mail and news in the same place (that's one of the
main reason why I do use Outlook for mail only when sending "ink" mail
from my tablet said:
and it will only go to that message if I have it set to the
correct server. It won't automatically switch servers. Program
like Outlook Express which put all the different news servers
you use in one hierarchical list will usually go straight to the
message regardless of which server it is.
That's the way I know it. Interesting to hear that Gravitity in this
respect is less versatile than OE.
What happens if you don't have the message already downloaded?
again, that depends on your newsreader.
That's not a problem.
What I have in mind is to add links to stuff sitting in the OE
folders. The aim is to enable direct access to a posting / a thread
from a page where I have copied a posting or a part of it to OneNote.
And it would not be a problem - at least with OE - if its a posting
which had not been downloaded. OE opens a posting if one uses the
proper URL.
Remember, OneNote can't make some program do something
it wasn't programmed to do. And you can't expect MS
to put a newsreader inside OneNote.
Oh no! This was the last thing on mind ..
It's just about storing a link which opens a posting.
This works if the link has the format you were talking about.
Have you been searching the web for info on how to
do this? Or have you just been waiting for us to do
it for you.
Sorry Grant. We had something of this sort a few weeks ago (where it
was not me on whom you jumped with the allegation of wanting others to
do his job). Not again, pleeeease.
Just to make it clear: I did not at all ask for anybody else doing
something for me what I could do myself.
But "asked" a question (which makes a lot of a difference [hope you
are willing/able to understand this]). IMHO it's not only allowed but
one of the main purposes of a forum/NG to ask if someone else might
possibly know something.
Isn't that a far more economic way than working on inventing a wheel?
I simply thought that someone might know the notation of the URLs.
Nothing more.
I found several discussions about this in other forums just by
searching. If I can find it in under a minute then so can you.
No. I am not you. I am not that fast in googling my way around. And
honestly speaking even now I do not have any idea on what to search.
And just a pointer from you on your results would have been of help.
And it would have costs both of us less time ...
Remember, the way you construct the links has nothing to do with
OneNote. OneNote just uses the standard methods that everyone
else uses.
Exactly!!!
But I simply thought that something might know the syntax of the
".
That's all I had asked for. Not more, not less.
Rainald
