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OCR: NewsWatcher .0b19 Opening Referenced Articles When you open a news or nntp URL NewsWatcher gets the referenced article from the news server and opens it in a new article window In addition to full formal news and nntp URLs, News Watcher recognizes one slack format for news references: the message pI of the article encl losed in angle brackets For example News Watcher recognizes both of the following as news references news:j-doe- 240687 34 123000 @mac1 18 flunku edu (full URL) op-!> -240687341230001@mac18.flunku.edu> (slack) In other words, with news references, you can leave off the "news:" prefix if you en the message id in angle brackets The slack format is very common on Usenet. For example most followup postings with an attribution Jine which looks like the following In article <messa ...