dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (09/06/83)
Recently, a number of people who are not novices to the net and who therefore should know better have submitted articles which they really didn't want to submit. They felt they were stuck because they had hit 'f' in readnews. If you want to stop a followup, simply REMOVE THE FILE BEFORE YOU QUIT THE EDITOR! The file name is easily ascertainable (e.g., 'f' in ed). To remove it simply invoke the shell from inside the editor ('!' in ed) and use rm. Dave Sherman -- {allegra,cornell,floyd,ihnp4,linus,utzoo,uw-beaver,watmath}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave
essick@uiuccsb.UUCP (09/10/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-219000:uiuccsb:3400002:000:944 uiuccsb!essick Sep 9 10:10:00 1983 One way to solve the problem of aborting followups (and articles in general) is to not queue them for submission to remote sites immediately. When combined with the ability for a user to delete his notes (on the local machine, not necessarily remote copies) it handles 99% or better of the cases where people want to delete something. Now that batching articles to send to a remote site is vogue, a scheme similar to what I use for notesfiles can be used quite effectively. Here at Illinois, a user is allowed to edit and/or delete his articles any time before they are queued for transmission. The queueing daemon runs every other hour. This leaves an average of 1 hour for a user to discover that he didn't really want to post something, he misspelled words in his article or that he forgot to sign the article. This catches a large percentage of the cases where people want to delete something. -- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton) (09/15/83)
the problem with not sending news to queue up immediately is that you add to the distribution time -- especially if you delay news at all sites, not just the posting ones. there are people who are 4 days away from me already, if you extend them to 6 days away from the rest of us they will be very annoyed. laura creighton (thanks to ihnp4 I'm close to almost everybody,thanks ihnp4!) utzoo!utcsstat!laura
naz@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Norman Azadian) (09/17/83)
One way is to use "rn" instead of readnews. Rn is much more pleasant to use. It does all the right things. We all use it here. It was developed here and I believe it was put into net.sources some months ago. Inquires to lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP [author] NHA