Subject: cancelling a post

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:37:03 -0800

Maybe a year ago, someone in this group described how to cancel a
newsgroup post. I think you send another message after it with a header in
it called "Control:". Unfortunately I can't recall what was supposed to
appear in the Control: line. Does anyone know how to do this? 

				Ian Ollmann
				[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 11:50:48 -0500

> appear in the Control: line. Does anyone know how to do this? 

    Last spring the post below appeared on comp.mail.pine.  I cannot 
vouch for its correctness,

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Date: 14 May 1995 17:50:03 GMT
From: Paul Robinson <[email-masked]>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
Subject: Re: How to Cancel USENET posts

Harris Internet Service Company ([email-masked]) wrote:
: What is the proper procedure for cancelling a newsgroup post?

Get the original post number (the "references") and be sure to have a
"Control:" header in the list of optional headers, or use the command
in pine to allow you to add it.

Use the following headers:

Control: cancel <[email-masked]> 
Subject: cmsg cancel <[email-masked]> 

And have a non-empty text; the signature should be sufficient
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