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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: postnews throwing messages away
Message-ID: <541@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 01:15:38 EST
Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.541
Posted: Sat Nov  8 01:15:38 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Nov-86 09:24:35 EST
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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I just spent fifteen minutes composing a posting for net.unix-wizards.
I ran postnews, answered all its questions, and it dropped me into
emacs for composition.  A while later, I saved and exited.  Postnews (I
assume it was postnews) then printed

Not sending to any newsgroups - no message posted

and THREW AWAY THE POSTING TEMPORARY FILE!  No mail to me, no mail to
usenet, no dead.* files in my home directory, presumably no posting to
net.unix-wizards, nothing!  Who wrote this trash?  Why wait until
*after* the luser has written the posting before throwing it on the
floor?!  The least it could have done is

Not sending to any newsgroups.  Disposition?  [save, add-groups, quit]

or something along those lines.

Postnews is gonna get worked over tonight.

I shall me *most* annoyed if it throws this one on the floor too.

					der Mouse

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