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From: russ@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Russell Reynolds)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: basic questions
Message-ID: <35663@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 1 Aug 89 21:30:33 GMT
References: <758@soleil.UUCP> <3025@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: russ@bu-it.bu.edu (Russell Reynolds)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: Boston University
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In article <3025@blake.acs.washington.edu> wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
>In article <758@soleil.UUCP> eam@soleil.UUCP (Ed A. Mills) writes:

>>16. Can I 'unpost' an article that I posted?  I tried this once, but it
>>    said I didn't own it, even though I had just posted it.
>
>   Hmmm, 'C'ancel should unpost a message. Maybe the current article
>wasn't the one you thought it was. Or maybe vnews and rn are just different...
>
	
	It could be a uid problem.  If you're sending your post from one
   machine to another for posting, the uid's may get munged.  I'm composing
   this on a workstation hanging off bu-it but it will be posted from bu-cs.
   If I try to cancel it I will get that error you mention because I do not
   currently have universal uid's for all my accounts.  Do you know which
   machine is your usenet server?  If you have an account on that machine
   then try cancelling from there (still not guaranteed to work).

	--- Russ ---

	It's not a .sig kind-o-day I guess