Subject: q

From: [email-masked] (Harold Jennings Jr.)
Date: 12 Apr 1995 13:22:08 -0700

I was using tin.
I was trying to delete an empty message from a newsgroup and wound up 
blocking myself and all articles from myself from that newsgroup by 
hitting ^K-kill/select.  How do I undo what I've done?  I've sent 3 messages 
but none of them has posted. How do I use this function to avoid this in 
the future? Also how do I get back all the postings that's been deleted?
Example-- newsgroup shows 74 entries- when I open the group the listing 
shows maybe 4/5 new postings.   When I hit (R) to toggle re/unread groups,
my postings or articles still won't show.  Help me please.............
Thank you.........................................

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 13 Apr 1995 03:47:46 GMT

Harold Jennings Jr. ([email-masked]) wrote:

A message having nothing to do with pine, but we'll try to help him 
anyway.  

: I was using tin.
: I was trying to delete an empty message from a newsgroup and wound up 

Just a stupid question; Why did ya wanna do that anyway?

: blocking myself and all articles from myself from that newsgroup by 
: hitting ^K-kill/select.  How do I undo what I've done?  I've sent 3 messages 
: but none of them has posted.

Actually they probably have posted, but you can't read them because you 
killed yourself.  If ya wanna let me know what group you posted to and 
approx date and roughly what the post said, I'll see if I can read it.

 How do I use this function to avoid this in 
: the future?

Don't kill yourself.

 Also how do I get back all the postings that's been deleted?

Theyre not deleted (from the usenet group) you just can't read them.

: Example-- newsgroup shows 74 entries- when I open the group the listing 
: shows maybe 4/5 new postings.   When I hit (R) to toggle re/unread groups,
: my postings or articles still won't show.  Help me please.............

OK I'm gonna try, but if you don't understand any of this or don't feel 
comfortable doing it, don't try it or you could scew something else up.  
Open up a file (with pico or any text editor that you feel comfortabe 
with) file named .kill (must have the . in the file name).  Now you 
should see the .kill file in text ascii form.  If not, quit (cancel or 
exit without saving or whatever).  If you do see it, delete the line (or 
lines) which you put there by mistake (in pico, put the cursor on the 
line and hit ^K (control+K).  Then resave the file with the 
same name (.kill).  Depending on your text editor you may be prompted if 
you want to overwrite the existing file or something.  Don't feel bad, I 
did the same thing myself, that's why I'm so smart on how to fix it.  
There may be an easier way, maybe someone else out there in cyberspace 
has a better answer.  BYE

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 13 Apr 1995 04:15:17 GMT

A followup to my last post (clarification of 1 answer).

   lotsa stuff and then

   How do I use this function to avoid this in the future?

Use the Delete command (I think it's D) not the ^Kill command.  You can 
only delete messages that YOU posted, you cannot delete other's.  Kill is 
used to screen out messages that you don't care to see (or to have your 
kids see).  You can Kill posts from a specific sender (including 
yourself, as you have discovered) or you can Kill posts with a specific 
subject matter (like if you don't want your kids to see posts on a 
certain thread), etc., or maybe there's some obnoxious person in the 
group that keeps writing nonesense, etc., there are other sort options, 
but I don't remember them at the moment.

BYE again.
DearOldDad