This is not working quite right for me. For example, I got a message saying:

root says You've got 
a reply to RE: My latest attempt 
at node_id=12437.

However, when I plug this into my browser as:

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=12437
[download]

I get a "node not found" and when I check, the actual node id I want is actually 11088. Ideally, the msg should have an active link like this, perhaps even hiding the node_id entirely:

root says You've got 
a reply to My latest attempt.