Clifford Heath wrote:
a) NNTP doesn't work like that - you need a newsgroup name.

My bad, confusing nntp: urls with news: ones.
The news:message-id format can work, but is only
enough to identify the message, not indicate where
it can be fetched. I.e. it'll only work in a news-
reader that's seen that message and still has it
indexed.