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Re: Line wrapping in lugnet.cad.dat files
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 14 Jan 1999 07:59:50 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:48:45 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
> legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:
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> > Related question, can posters cancel messages?
> > I hit "Cancel Usenet Message" in Free Agent, but all it seems to do is
> > want to post a message with "cancel" in the subject line. Will this
> > work, or will it just post a new message? I chose not to send it, BTW.
> > I thought I might be able to cancel the offending post, delete some
> > excess zeros in that last line, and repost so it is not line-wrapped.
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> Yup, that's how newsreaders cancel things -- they send a special control
> message inside a new article and the server figures out what to do.
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> --Todd
Um.... When I tried to cancel, I got an error message back saying posts to lugnet.cad.dat MUST
have raw dat file data in them. Hmmm.... OK, so I tried again, but this time I pasted a
single line of dat data into the body. It went through that time.
Will that screw things up?
So far, the post is still there on the web page.
-- Terry K --
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| (...) LOL!! :) Ooops, duh, that's my fault...it should certainly make exceptions for control messages, shouldn't it. I'll log that as a bug. Thanks for discovering and reporting. (...) Cool, good idea. Nice workaround. :) (...) Apparently not. :) (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Line wrapping in lugnet.cad.dat files
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| (...) Nope. lugnet.cad.dat:50 was posted through your newsreader rather than the web interface or the e-mail gateway. (The 'X-Nntp-Posting-Host' header says 146.phoenix-05-10rs....ss.att.net rather than (URL) or a gateway address), so the problem is (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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