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  Cancelling Posts?
 
Cancelling posts as of now is a bit cumbersome, having to ask Todd to do it for you and all. What if the members' area had a utility to cancel any of the posts that came from that specific member number - a user can browse through his/her posts to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) I agree. That's all, folks ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) The way I read Todd's position on cancelling posts is: He does not like to do it. Upon request from the originator, he does cancel messages, but only when the author gives express orders to do so. Anything other than this leads to moderating (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
I don't believe you can cancel posts with your newsreader that you posted with the web interface. If you can, that would solve the problem for a class of users, but not all. However, I still think this is a facility that Todd should provide. It is (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) Yes, you can do this. --Todd (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
IF everything matches exactly, right? My main point still stands, a user friendly way to do it would be nice. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) I wish there were a way to do this, as well, via the web interface. When I am motivated to cancel a post, I will go ahead and use outlook express or netscape to find the post via NNTP and issue a cancel, but NNTP access is painfully slow from (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) You'll also have to be willing to receive an email at the address you posted under, in order to confirm that you are indeed the person cancelling the message. The email will have to contain a unique one-time secret code that you'd either type (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
(...) If you have the newwsreader set up right, (email address and Name should match the article), they'll usually cancel for you unless they're braindead. I suspect OE and Netscape of being braindead in this regard, though. All you need is a proper (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cancelling Posts?
 
Quoting a post posted six months ago .... Has a facility for cancelling posts via the web interface been implemented? I wrote in this post that I go fire up a newsreader when I want to cancel a post, but my NNTP access has become so dicey that I no (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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