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From: badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: withdrawing mails
Message-ID: <1012@ur-valhalla.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 14:55:11 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-valha.1012
Posted: Sun Feb 15 14:55:11 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Feb-87 01:48:53 EST
References: <3126@osu-eddie.UUCP> <716@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
Organization: EE VLSI Graduate Research Facility, UR, Rochester NY 14627
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In article <716@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> henry@garp.UUCP (Henry Mensch) writes:
>lien@osu-eddie.UUCP wrote: 
>->It seems to me that a user has no way to withdraw  a mail before
>->it is read or forward to othernet.
>->
>The solution is for the user (that means you) to be careful.  Most of
>the mail programs I know about give the user a chance to look over the
>message and header before it gets sent out (even Berkeley mail lets
>you do this). 
>
If you have Rick Adams' uucp installed and the mail is going out over
uucp, there is a way of deleting mail. A utility named uuq works very
well. However I agree with Henry; a user has just got to be more
careful while posting mail. There is always some point from which
there is no way to retract a message and if a user thinks twice before
hitting ^D it will be good for all.

Badri Lokanathan
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