Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > how would one construct an HREF to a specific newsgroup on a specific news > server? > I know HREF="news:news.somewhere.net"; will pull up the configured newsreader > and attach to news.somewhere.net, but how do I get the newsreader to > automagically load a specific newsgroup on news.somewhere.net? > thanks
<A HREF="news://news.somewhere.net/stepsite.somelists.freebsd-users";> ...replace with appropriate values. The actual syntax looks something like this in full: newsURL = scheme ":" [ news-site ] [ refbygroup | message ] scheme = "news" | "snews" | "nntp" news-site = "//" site "/" refbygroup = group [ "/" messageno [ "-" messageno ] ] message = local-part "@" domain as you can see, it's possible to be quite granular in you addressing, say automatically point them at the news server and a specific message number. -- Linux SxS [http://sxs.webhop.net/] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
