Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Message-ID: <1991May29.150925.6793@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 29 May 91 15:09:25 GMT References: <1991May28.203704.5535@mp.cs.niu.edu> <12569@uwm.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 34 In article <12569@uwm.edu> jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu writes: >From article <1991May28.203704.5535@mp.cs.niu.edu>, by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert): >> In article <1991May28.200304.25371@solbourne.com> imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) writes: >>>I really wanted to cancel this article, but I didn't. So this brought >>>to mind the following question: > >> So did I. But I wrote an email complaint to {usenet,Postmaster}@uwm.edu >> instead. I haven't seen any action or response though. > >Hey, Neil! Give us a break, eh? :-) Your message came in over >lunch break -- and it _does_ take a _little_ time to process these >things. (Your e-mail message arrived here at 1759 GMT, I answered it >at 1843 GMT.) I guess one has to be REALLY careful about what one says. I suppose, in retrospect, I should have added a 'yet' to the end of my sentence on not having seen a response. Still, if I had added a 'yet' this would have suggested I was complaining. My intention was only to report an alternative to cancelling an article that originated elsewhere. In terms of time, I wrote to you at 1758 GMT. My posting was at 20:37 GMT. I saw the first cancellation at 20:47 GMT, with a posting date of 20:43 GMT. Other cancellations trickled through in the afternoon. In general, this was handled well by uwm.edu. I am gratified that my letter was "answered at 1843 GMT". Unfortunately I still have not seen this answer. If I had seen it by the time of my earlier posting, I am sure my wording would have been different. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940