israel@umcp-cs.UUCP (10/02/83)
How do you cancel a message? I accidentally posted three copies of the same message to net.news, and I've been trying to cancel the last two of them. I've gone into readnews, gotten to the appropriate messages, and then used the 'c' command to them. This runs "inews" which (a few minutes later) comes back with the message "inews: Not contributor: israel and israel@umcp-cs.UUCP (Bruce N. Israel)." It seems that the first version is gotten from the file, and the second one is generated for the caller, since I changed my finger entry to add my middle initial (which I don't normally use). I tried doing the cancel command, as myself, in a "root" subshell, and in a "news" subshell, but it told me the same error message each time. I am getting VERY frustrated. Adding to my frustration is this other readnews problem. When I wanted to cancel those messages, I had to get to them in "readnews". Since I had already passed them in the normal course of events, I called readnews with "readnews -x -n net.news". This put me in the newsgroup net.news.adm, AND NO OTHER GROUP! I could "N net.news" to get there, but "N" by itself just dropped me out of readnews. I finally found out that "readnews -x -n net.news !net.news.all" will work for getting me into net.news itself, but I don't understand how telling it to ignore certain newsgroups tells it to add some other group. BTW, I should point out that I do subscribe to net.news and all of its sub-groups, and that I didn't touch my .newsrc while doing the above. "Not to frustrated to forget to sign my name" ~~~ Bruce ~~~ Usenet: seismo!umcp-cs!israel Arpanet: israel.umcp-cs@Udel-Relay