Re: Not a www-html matter

In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970310235531.25975B-100000@crystal.clare.cam.ac.uk>,
James Aylett <sja20@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> [This is actually off-remit; apologies for not following up to a more
> appropriate forum.]

IS there a more appropriate forum?

> > news:<message-id>@host/243-300
> 
> Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that some news hosts
> require users to log in. Hence using the <message-id>@host would be a

I think the original poster wanted to give the message ID in the
traditional format, which is "unique-string" @ "hostname". The news:
URL scheme already is of this form, the only new thing here is the
bit with /243-300. 

Is using # as fragment identifier too simple?

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Received on Tuesday, 11 March 1997 14:25:09 UTC