handeli@lll-lcc.UUCP (David Handeli) (01/11/90)
Does anybody out there how to undo a news article that has been posted? Thanks in advance.
subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) (01/13/90)
Type "C" -- when you are viewing your send article
-Kartik
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In article <2718@lll-lcc.UUCP> handeli@lll-lcc.UUCP (David Handeli) writes:
\Does anybody out there how to undo a news article
\that has been posted? Thanks in advance.
`Undoing' a posted article means posting a *cancel* message. From within
`rn' you select the article and type `C'; however, on most rn installations
this scenario doesn't work - despite what the manual says - due to a bug.
BUT! I've just posted an rn macro + shell script to news.misc + alt.sources
to cancel articles with the `inews' program. Email if you missed it.
If you use the `nn' newsreader (far more user-friendly, IMHO), `C' will work.
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