andrew wrote:
> I am resurrecting an old page of mine that contains links to some quite
> old alt.html posts. I reference these to Google Groups using a Google
> hash, for example:
>
>
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.html/c/6SZN3x1BcOo/m/CRqVtWFwCzsJ
>
> However I would like to use the original MID which does not seem
> available on that link; the option 'Show original message' is greyed
> out.
>
> Any thoughts on how to capture the original MID on this and other
> messages?
It seems that Google decided to hide the original message for some
reason. If you mouse over the greyed-out “Show original message”, you
see some explanation of privacy of e-mail addresses. If hiding addresses
is Google’s purpose, it’s natural to prevent seeing the raw message.
On the other hand, what would you do with the Message-ID? It was meant
to be a unique global identifier for a message, and in ancient times, it
was possible (to some extent) to search messages by Message-ID. But
hardly these days. And Message-ID was not meant to be informative in any
way, just a random identifier.