Re: deleted undotbs01.dbf...

From: Alexander Skwar <usenet_at_alexander.skwar.name>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:02:01 +0200
Message-ID: <1431914.UnyEOMz4Xr@m-id.message-center.info>

· Brian Peasland <dba_at_nospam.peasland.net>:

> codadilupo wrote:

>> Volker Hetzer wrote:
>>

>>>> See thread at <news:6491378.fGlmkVyoaZ_at_kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info>
>>>> and also <news:1240493.UQgxmLvFx2_at_kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info>.
>>> What do I do with this?
>>> google groups doesn't recognize those strings.

>>
>> You have to remove the angle brackets and the "news:" prefix and cut and
>> paste the resulting string into http://groups.google.com/ -> Advanced
>> Groups Search -> Lookup the message with message ID.
>>
>> HTH. Kind regards,
>>

>
> Or, the poster could have just used a nice, well-formed URL

Which is just what I did.

> similar to
> the following

Nope. URLs which just point to Google Groups are quite bad. For example, what do you do with the URL you provided when you don't want to go to Google Groups? As you know, not everybody in a newsgroup is using Google Groups.

> and have avoided all of this...

Why should I? What I've provided is much more usabel - even for Google Groups users.

Alexander Skwar

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Received on Thu Aug 02 2007 - 13:02:01 CDT