🚀 go-pugleaf

Another goody I'd like to see in a revision of DNews is the capability of
posting a cancel article.  I don't often feel the need to cancel my own
articles (and whilst I'd *like* to cancel some others, I feel that's not
my place) so when I do, it takes me about 9 attempts to get things right.
It doesn't help that I can't use 'f'ollow-up to post, because that strips
off the headers, whilst using 'm'ail-to gives me the headers, but doesn't
generate Path, nor an identical From.  Moreover, it plonks in its own
Message-ID despite my putting one there: I could remove this by editing
the nnnn.txt file afterwards, but forget to.

Could we not simply have an option to issue a cancel for a message
(either after I've got a copy back into my own newsbase, or if I've put
the original posting directly there, as some people do) that grabs the
relevant fields and bundles them up with the appropriate Control,
Message-ID, and Subject headers.  The rest of the header would be
generated in the normal fashion for the poster, so that it should match
up to the fields in the original iff it's the original poster issuing the
cancel.  

Surely just a SMOP :-)

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                       "A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy"    
                                                          --  Samuel Johnson