News and NNTP URIs are defined in RFC 5538: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5538 The nntp URL is: nntp://[userinfo@]host[:port]/group[/article-number] The authority is optional in news: URIs, and they can refer to either a newsgroup name (more specifically, a newsgroup wildmat), or a newsgroup message ID: news:[//[userinfo@]host[:port]/]<newsgroup name> news:[//[userinfo@]host[:port]/]<msg-id> So the following URLs all reference m.d.a.t: news:mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird nntp://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird And the following URLs all reference (at this time) the newest message in that newsgroup: news:VJudnUQgWaGUwa7AnZ2dnUU7-X3NnZ2d@mozilla.org news://news.mozilla.org/VJudnUQgWaGUwa7AnZ2dnUU7-X3NnZ2d@mozilla.org nntp://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/16191
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News and NNTP URIs are defined in RFC 5538: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5538 The nntp URL is: nntp://[userinfo@]host[:port]/group[/article-number] The authority is optional in news: URIs, and they can refer to either a newsgroup name (more specifically, a newsgroup wildmat), or a newsgroup message ID: news:[//[userinfo@]host[:port]/]<newsgroup name> news:[//[userinfo@]host[:port]/]<msg-id> So the following URLs all reference m.d.a.t: news:mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird nntp://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird And the following URLs all reference (at this time) the newest message in that newsgroup: [news:VJudnUQgWaGUwa7AnZ2dnUU7-X3NnZ2d@mozilla.org](news:VJudnUQgWaGUwa7AnZ2dnUU7-X3NnZ2d@mozilla.org) news://news.mozilla.org/VJudnUQgWaGUwa7AnZ2dnUU7-X3NnZ2d@mozilla.org nntp://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/16191