[net.news] How to stop a followup

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)

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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.

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