Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!maart
From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: news system
Message-ID: <5089@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 12 Jan 90 18:31:20 GMT
References: <2718@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatika, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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In article <2718@lll-lcc.UUCP> handeli@lll-lcc.UUCP (David Handeli) writes:
\Does anybody out there how to undo a news article
\that has been posted? Thanks in advance.

`Undoing' a posted article means posting a *cancel* message.  From within
`rn' you select the article and type `C'; however, on most rn installations
this scenario doesn't work - despite what the manual says - due to a bug.
BUT!  I've just posted an rn macro + shell script to news.misc + alt.sources
to cancel articles with the `inews' program.  Email if you missed it.
If you use the `nn' newsreader (far more user-friendly, IMHO), `C' will work.
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  Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:  maart@cs.vu.nl,  uunet!mcsun!botter!maart