on 2014 Mar 21 9:04 AM
Since the old NNTP forums are long gone, and the according archive website nntp-archive.sybase.com has no builtin search facility, I follow Jason's advice to search within the archive, as discussed in Breck's blog article " The Newsgroups Are Gone".
That works well enough for my needs.
However, the displayed URLs look weird (or even invalid...) and cannot be used as links within this forum, as shown in that answer...
Similar strange links are shown (for me) when searching for the following keywords:
"passthrough mode" site:http://nntp-archive.sybase.com
So what must I do to receive an useful link to the archived articles?
If you make the link using the Markdown syntax, it will work if you replace the <
with %3C, >
with %3E, and @
with %40. So the text of the article should look like:
This looks like:
Text with a link to nntp
It also seems to work if you just include the plain URL itself. But for some reason, simply including the link in an <a href="url">text</a>
does not work, presumably due to Markdown being too smart for its own good.
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Interestingly enough, this is coming from your web browser. The server passes an encoded URL (to W3C specs), which you can view in the page source.
A quick google search shows this isn't a unique problem. The most common suggestion is to put a "link to this page" button somewhere on the screen. I'll see if I can do that in the next revision.
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