Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!mindcraft.com!karish From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article Summary: Metadiscussion Message-ID: <675553034.595@mindcraft.com> Date: 29 May 91 21:37:13 GMT References: <1991May28.203704.5535@mp.cs.niu.edu> <12569@uwm.edu> <1991May29.120232.16294@cs.utk.edu> Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 19 In article <12569@uwm.edu>, jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) writes: >Anyway, here's the story. A "newbie" user posted the article. He >has been 'instructed' that this is Not Good. He has also learned >how to cancel his own articles! In addition to having a simmering >(nay, boiling) mailbox, he has had the Fear of the Lord put into him >by all you kind people who sent him gentle missives. :-) Doesn't this belong in news.admin? The base note asked about policy, which was approriate here. Perhaps it was unwise to use a specific example, because that spawned an irrelevant finger-pointing session. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000