Subject: Re: cancelling articles?

From: Joe Brennan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 9:20:54 EST

>     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. 

Not exactly.  Most unix newsreaders have a cancel command.  It checks
the userid of the person running the newsreader and if it matches the
article to be cancelled, the newsreader composes the cancel article
by itself, sparing the user the details.

If only Pine's Delete command did this, and the articles were marked
read by reading them, it would be like "any other newsreader".

Joseph Brennan     Academic Information Systems
                   Columbia University in the City of New York
                   [email-masked]