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In article <slrn7hm09l.me4.robm@bob.bob.bofh.org>, Robert Mortimer
<robm@bob.bofh.org> writes
>allegedly Marshall Rice wrote <TwjNxAA30tG3EwEd@msrice.co.uk> :
>>In article <R80YMHApQhG3EwEW@ogilvie.org>, Malcolm Ogilvie
>><malcolm@ogilvie.org> writes
>>>In article <slrn7hk372.f5j.mpellatt@mpellatt.demon.co.uk>, Mike Pellatt
>>><mpellatt@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>>>>On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:20:32 GMT, Paul Burridge
>>>><osiris@thanatos.win-uk.net> wrote:
>>>>>Really? ISTR that Marshall Rice contacted Demon to find out how to
>>>>>cancel a posting and no one was able to tell him! 
>>>>If he wasn't using Turnpike, I wouldn't expect them to be able
>>>>to. OTOH, if he was, I would have expected them to be able to.
>>>From the header of a recent message of his:
>>>Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 
>>At the time ISTR that I was using DIS. 
>
>In which case it's doable, but not automagic,
>I don't think there is an snews variant with a cancel function,
>I'm more certain that the official version doesn't have such a
>function[1]
>It would have been a question of writing the cancel, at least semi,
>manually. 

Indeed. DIS would have allowed me to do so quite easily - I simply
needed to know what to put in the header.

>Someone should have known how to do this though.

One would have thought so.
-- 
Marshall Rice