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  Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) Hey thanks ROSCO, I couldn't get it to work with IE or Mozilla. (User Interface issues, I guess). So I was forced to use the ultra-modern telnet news client. So for web posters, here's howto cancel your own lugnet post via telnet. First visit (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)  
 
  Re: Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) I have only used Outlook express and Pine. With Outlook express you just select the message, then Message / Cancel Message from the menu (don't choose Edit / Delete - that just removes it from your local drive!). And wait for the confirmation (...) (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Cancel your own post (for web users)
 
(...) Yeah. Meanwhile you can make the telnet method feel just a tiny bit more like that button by launching telnet from some browsers with this URL: telnet://lugnet.com:1119/ Don (19 years ago, 3-Sep-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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