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Re: Cancel your own post (for web users)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:47:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Ross Crawford wrote:
> > In fact, every member has the power to cancel their own posts, provided
> > they have access to a news client that has cancel functionality (which
> > means most of them these days). Now all we need is for email and
> > web-based cancel to be implemented...
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> Hey thanks ROSCO,
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> I couldn't get it to work with IE or Mozilla. (User Interface issues,
> I guess).
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 email. Pine was so long ago I've forgotten exactly how I did it,
but I don't recall it being obtuse at all.
> 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.
Snippity explanation of telnet cancel, which I wouldn't have even thought to
try...
> Now as you said, how do we get this implemented as a button on the
> web page?
Well, ummm, it's on my list of things to ask for when Lugnet's future is more
certain...
ROSCO
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| (...) 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)
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