Spending the time to be more through on an upcoming news item posts, I found a [dated] post in the archive:
http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Varsovia-pl-s-2018-e-mobile-office-concept-EV-r-350km-td4683702.html When I clicked to lauch the page's URL in that post [ https://electrek.co/2016/09/02/varsovia-motor-electric-concept-car-mobile-office/;cid=1477596389281-127 ], it failed. [Roseannadanna mode (Feder of NJ asks: ) -So why would a not so old link suddenly be no good? -Did the media outlet pull the story? -Did brucedp put the wrong URL? -Why won't the page load? (Feder sure asks a lotta questions for someone from NJ ... ) /mode off] Answer: the nabble archive attaches a cid= number to the end of any link in a post. See the mail-archive of that evdl post which does not attach a cid number to posted URLs: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18146.html The URL destination host may not want to load that URL+cid= # , which is why the link would fail to load. But if you highlight & copy the actual URL text from the post [ https://electrek.co/2016/09/02/varsovia-motor-electric-concept-car-mobile-office/ ], and then paste it into a browser and launch that URL, it likely will open the page OK. Why does nabble put a useless cid number on posted links, making those links not open, thus frustrating users? ... (perhaps it was a frustrated programmer that enjoys causing hell for uses?). *** If only there were a way to remove all cid= numbers from the nabble archived posts, and prevent nabble from attaching any further cid numbers to URLs. For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.0catch.com} ... https://www.quora.com/Prescriptive-Grammar-Is-how-come-proper-English how come (aka how cum zit) ... http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77supdate.phtml Roseanne Roseannadanna -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/How-cum-zit-cid-s-added-to-nabble-archived-URLs-fail-to-open-links-tp4684244.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
