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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Cancelling articles
Message-ID: <1919@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 18:41:36 GMT
References: <428.24E71AB9@tlsi.FIDONET.ORG> <1348@abaa.UUCP> <30748@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1989Aug20.025847.3430@twwells.com> <1563@abaa.UUCP> <14580@bfmny0.UUCP> <1989Aug26.213711.16326@twwells.com>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Followup-To: alt.flame
Organization: Allen Bradley
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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.

Good point, something that should have been brought up in this group before.

In article <1989Aug26.213711.16326@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>Whatever, I've often found that when someone posts a followup to an
>article instead of a cancel, they tried to cancel the article but
>weren't able to. Or they just didn't know about cancelling an article.

Well, as the guy who originated the message that started this thread, I need
to say that I did not cancel the previous article intentionally (even though
I did know how).  This for several reasons:

    1) The first article contained points I wanted to keep and not repeat
       in the second article.
    2) It allowed me to keep the "Another lesson for new users..." vain
       that Bill Wisner used to try and teach me his way of life.  Tom Neff
       did a good job at continuing that vain in his article.
    3) I was pissed at seeing yet more flames after I wrote the first
       post and wanted to let fires roar.

Unfortuanately, 3 is the worst reason to post, but probably the most likely.

BTW.  My reading of this group has turned into searching for my name to see
who and how many flame me next, and to what extent.  I guess we need an
alt.SanM group.  Time to hit the "u" key after I post this article.  Follow-
ups are directed to alt.flame since I won't be around to read them anymore.
For my first flame-war, I can't say its been fun.

>Bill                    { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill
>bill@twwells.com

Thanks Bill Wells again.  I hope your asbestos suit is in top shape.  You've
provided some of the only Signal I've found in all this Noise!  Of coarse
this means some flamer is probably waiting for you.  When my SysAd finally
gets our rn to work and I can do kill files by peoples names to work, I will
probably be back.  Will eliminate 50 % of the noise.