[SC-Help] Re: OT Re: What now?

[Brian (SnSR)]

Mike Easter wrote:
> J G wrote:
> 
>> Mike Easter scribbled:
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>> news:db42d1$eap$1 at news.spamcop.net
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> 
>>Using Thunderbird, how do I get it to follow the above link?
> 
> 
> I don't know tbird -- in the IE/OE marriage, a link like that causes IE
> to call up OE for the display and OE tries to get the mid from the
> default newsserver..
> 
> In that IE/OE combination, it is essential that the OE default
> newsserver be news.spamcop.net if it is so configured, but if I had made
> the link be designed for OE to have /any/ newsserver as default, I
> should have put news://news.spamcop.net/db42d1$eap$1@news.spamcop.net
> Try that one.
> 
> 

That works better for Thunderbird and Firefox.