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Sorry, this is not even an excel question but I've been wondering about it a
while. I find this forum very useful and I want to be able to make references to specific threads/discussions/questions/responses in this forum in my comments in my code. So far I've been copying & pasting the entire url which, incidentally, I don't fully comprehend nor am sure works definitively. Not to mention the url is very, very long. My question: Is each specific posting or each discussion/thread tagged or otherwise assigned some kind of serial number so that one can use it easily to retrieve a specific response/solution at a future date? Thanks a lot. |
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On Jul 21, 11:36 am, rockhammer
wrote: My question: Is each specific posting or each discussion/thread tagged or otherwise assigned some kind of serial number so that one can use it easily to retrieve a specific response/solution at a future date? Good question! I think the simplest answer is "probably not" :-(. The more complete and more correct answer depends on your news server and the capabilities presented to you by your news reader. If you can look at the unformatted form of a posting (which is ASCII text), you will find a Message-ID header record. That record ID is unique to the news server on which the posting originated. It is globally unique because the server name is included in the ID. However, whether or not you can do a seach for the Message-ID is another matter altogether. Google Groups Advanced Search claims to provide that capability. But I have not been able to make it work. Moreover, it would only work if the posting is on the Google Groups news server(s). I have found that many postings to Microsoft Discussion Groups never make it to GG servers :-(, inexplicably. |
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I'm not sure what URL you're using, but maybe you want to use google groups to
search for the thread you like. Then you can shorten that URL on http://snipurl.com http://tinyurl.com (or one of the equivalent sites). I've bookmarked this: http://groups.google.com/advanced_gr...Excel*&num=100 to get me to a search screen quickly. rockhammer wrote: Sorry, this is not even an excel question but I've been wondering about it a while. I find this forum very useful and I want to be able to make references to specific threads/discussions/questions/responses in this forum in my comments in my code. So far I've been copying & pasting the entire url which, incidentally, I don't fully comprehend nor am sure works definitively. Not to mention the url is very, very long. My question: Is each specific posting or each discussion/thread tagged or otherwise assigned some kind of serial number so that one can use it easily to retrieve a specific response/solution at a future date? Thanks a lot. -- Dave Peterson |
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I would suggest downloading Ron de Bruin's google search add-in which makes it
very easy to find topics by search words. http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:36:01 -0700, rockhammer wrote: Sorry, this is not even an excel question but I've been wondering about it a while. I find this forum very useful and I want to be able to make references to specific threads/discussions/questions/responses in this forum in my comments in my code. So far I've been copying & pasting the entire url which, incidentally, I don't fully comprehend nor am sure works definitively. Not to mention the url is very, very long. My question: Is each specific posting or each discussion/thread tagged or otherwise assigned some kind of serial number so that one can use it easily to retrieve a specific response/solution at a future date? Thanks a lot. |
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