Subject: Re: cancelling articles?

From: [email-masked] (Jeremy)
Date: 12 Nov 1996 14:24:03 -0500

[email-masked] (Paul O Bartlett ) wrote:

>    I have never had reason to do it, but I think you cancel articles
>from Pine the way you cancel them from any other newsreader.  Send a
>blank (no body) post to the newsgroup(s) involved with the Subject:
>
>cmsg cancel <message-id>

>    Since I have not had experience with cancelling news, I will
>cheerfully accept corrections or amplifications.

You should have a Control: cancel <message-id> header in there.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 11:06:49 -0500

On 7 Nov 1996, grok the void type wrote:

> The other day I posted a Usenet news article using pine's builtin
> newsreader. Later I discovered I needed to cancel the article but couldn't
> as there is no cancel command in pine. Is there a way to cancel a news
> article posted with pine?

cmsg cancel <message-id>

where you have to know what the message-id is.  One caveat.  I have
heard (I have not verified) that you must post the cancellation from
exactly the same domain as the original posting you are trying to
cancel.

    Example: the generic domain of my address is  access.digex.net .
However, when I actually logon, my real physical address may be any
one of

        access1.digex.net
        access2.digex.net
        access4.digex.net
        access5.digex.net

If I were to try to cancel a news post, I would have to be logged on
to exactly the same host server that I was logged on to when I
submitted the original post I wanted to cancel.  For many people, of
course, this is simply not an issue, but for some it can be a gotcha.

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From: [email-masked] (Ollivier Robert)
Date: 13 Nov 1996 13:35:49 GMT

[courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Paul O Bartlett  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>     In *addition* to the Subject: line to which I referred or in
> *place* of the Subject: line?

The "Control: cancel" line should be enough but you may want to include the
"Subject: cmsg cancel" for compatibility.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:13:33 -0500

On 12 Nov 1996, Jeremy wrote:

> > [...]                                                        Send a

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From: Michael Warner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 13:17:59 GMT

> *place* of the Subject: line?

In addition.

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