bmw@aesat.UUCP (Bruce Walker) (08/15/84)
[Articles are packed by weight; contents may settle during shipping] In answer to my query "how can I abort from `reply' in readnews", I received these responses ... > Just delete the "To:" header line, and the mail will go nowhere. > > Dave Sherman > utzoo!utcsrgv!dave > From: ihnp4!drutx!rkp > > What I have done is to delete all the lines in the buffer, and > mail will recognize it as a screw-up and not send it. The error > message I get is "you don't really want to send that?" > > Good luck > Russ Pierce ... which is what I thought I had done. Upon reflection, and after some experiments (I replied repeatedly to my own posting), I have verified that Dave and Russ are correct - AS LONG AS YOU END THE EDIT SESSION "NORMALLY". That is, delete the "To:" line (probably the first line), then quit the editor as though you intended on sending the text. What I had done was to try to abort the editor (in vi by typing ":q!") which had caused the original header block supplied by readnews (with an intact "To:" line but no message body) to be sent. I also received ... > **** **** > >From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh > > What I do and hope that it works is use a ',d' and a 'w' to make > the file empty then 'q'. I will try this after I send this to see if > it works. If you don't get another reply from me it works. [so far, there has been no reply ... sounds like the "halting problem" to me :-] Bruce Walker ..decvax!utzoo!aesat!bmw