How to make a link to a newsgroup post?

From time to time I find it useful to be able to put a link to a
newsgroup thread in an e-mail message or a post to a different newsgroup.

I've been doing it by going to the start of the thread in Google-groups,
then pasting the URL of that page into my message after shrinking it
through www.tinyurl.com.

That seems to work just fine, but have I overlooked a simpler way to
accomplish this?

Jeff


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My name is Jeff Wisnia and I approved this message....

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public
schools"

 

Just use the Message-ID from the headers. For example,
your Message-ID for this post is:
Message-ID: <>

To create the link, use "followed by the actual
ID (without the < > marks), like so:

 

Consider crossposting instead of multiposting. Then, when people have
read your post in one group, they'll be tagged as read in the other
group(s), as well.

(Poster's question has been well answered in at least one other group.)

 

I had received the distinct impression that crossposting was muchly
frowned upon.....By the number of times I've seen guys royally flamed
for doing just that.

That's why I multiposted my post, but *only* to two newsgroups.

My, you do get around though Blinky, quite unlike like that female Great
White who was stuck in an inlet in Woods Hole (Taxachusetts) for the
last ten days or so. <G>

http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsshar0929,0,6483346.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

Jeff

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My name is Jeff Wisnia and I approved this message....

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"As long as there are final exams, there will be prayer in public
schools"

 

Crossposting to too many groups and crossposting to groups where the
topic is offtopic is bad practice. But crossposting to a couple-three
groups, and being on-topic is better than multiposting.

See above.

And this: http://kb.indiana.edu/data/affn.html

 

I've read that a few sharks have been reported going upstream in some
rivers, and chomping on the occasional land mammal like caribou that were
wading therein.

 

The Greenland Shark. I believe I sent you the bookmark, some time ago.