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Article #5121postnews throwing messages away
From: der Mouse
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1986 06:15
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1986 06:15
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I just spent fifteen minutes composing a posting for net.unix-wizards.
I ran postnews, answered all its questions, and it dropped me into
emacs for composition. A while later, I saved and exited. Postnews (I
assume it was postnews) then printed
Not sending to any newsgroups - no message posted
and THREW AWAY THE POSTING TEMPORARY FILE! No mail to me, no mail to
usenet, no dead.* files in my home directory, presumably no posting to
net.unix-wizards, nothing! Who wrote this trash? Why wait until
*after* the luser has written the posting before throwing it on the
floor?! The least it could have done is
Not sending to any newsgroups. Disposition? [save, add-groups, quit]
or something along those lines.
Postnews is gonna get worked over tonight.
I shall me *most* annoyed if it throws this one on the floor too.
der Mouse
USA: {ihnp4,decvax,akgua,utzoo,etc}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse
think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse
Europe: mcvax!decvax!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse
ARPAnet: think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse@harvard.harvard.edu
Aren't you glad you don't shave with Occam's Razor?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: postnews throwing messages away Message-ID: <541@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 01:15:38 EST Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.541 Posted: Sat Nov 8 01:15:38 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Nov-86 09:24:35 EST Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 29