"Absolute Zero" <amycaton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8f290e5f.0411080434.3c24ae4e@posting.google.com...
Rather than wait for the gOOgle churn.
Sorry about the big old link - how does one just get the message ID from
google groups?
http://groups.google.se/groups?hl=sv&lr=&threadm=J79id.3827008%24ic1.382776%
40news.easynews.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dsv%26lr%3D%26q%3Da%2Bpredicti
on%2Bdreamwalker%2Bguernon%26btnG%3DS%25C3%25B6k%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dalt.prop
hecies.nostradamus
Go to that page, click 'View this article only', click 'Original
Format'
DOH! God I'm cerebrally challenged on occasion...
and you'll see the ID listed as
J79id.3827008$ic1.382776@news.easynews.com
Plug that ID into the search page and you'll get:
http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=off&as_umsgid=J79id.3827008%
24ic1.382776@news.easynews.com&lr=&hl=en
Take that to http://tinyurl.com and I've generated:
http://tinyurl.com/49ho4
Any length url can be reduced to 24 characters at that site.
-A
Ta very much.
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