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From: pat@orac.pgh.pa.us (Pat Barron)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature lines, this is going too far!
Message-ID: <198@orac.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 25 Aug 89 04:50:06 GMT
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In article <14580@bfmny0.UUCP> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>Well, ANOTHER lesson for new users is that when you realize after posting
>something that you shouldn't have posted it, you can CANCEL your posting
>rather than creating a big second posting apologizing for the first one.
>In "rn" the "C" key does the trick - with other newsreaders check the
>documentation.

Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.  If your news system is
compiled to use GENERICPATH or GENERICFROM (or, in older versions,
HIDDENNET) - that is, if it's set up to make all postings from your
site look like they came from one central machine - you may not be
able to cancel your own articles.  I've had this happen, and have had
to forge cancel messages to get around the problem (I had netnews
admin privs on the machine I did this from, so it's not "bad" that
I forged the cancel....).

--Pat.
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