Water changes & Temperature Fluctuations

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:36:43 GMT, Jolly Fisherman
wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:41:01 -0000, "nut"
wrote:

atomweaver wrote:
NP. FYI, there is no "cancellling" a post in Usenet.

Yes there is.


There are a few caveats to his advice. Read the rest of the thread
also.

Sorry I was unclear. I really was talking about Larry Blanchard's
advice.

Permit me to be pedantic but you cannot cancel a Usenet post once it
has been submitted to an ISP's news server and propagated to the
Internet. Unless you have access & control of that nntp server you
can only cancel a Usenet post _before_ it is submitted by your client
to the server (i.e. in your outbox). When someone else replies is
irrelevant. Your ability to cancel or not cancel a post is the same
if no one ever replies. Also it is possible to have outlook
(express), for example, configured to not automatically send/receive.
In that case you could cancel a message any time before that manual
send. But remember only because it has not been sent to or received
by your nntp server.

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:36:10 GMT, Jolly Fisherman
wrote:

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:36:43 GMT, Jolly Fisherman
wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:41:01 -0000, "nut"
wrote:

atomweaver wrote:
NP. FYI, there is no "cancellling" a post in Usenet.

Yes there is.


There are a few caveats to his advice. Read the rest of the thread
also.

Sorry I was unclear. I really was talking about Larry Blanchard's
advice.

Permit me to be pedantic but you cannot cancel a Usenet post once it
has been submitted to an ISP's news server and propagated to the
Internet. Unless you have access & control of that nntp server you
can only cancel a Usenet post _before_ it is submitted by your client
to the server (i.e. in your outbox). When someone else replies is
irrelevant. Your ability to cancel or not cancel a post is the same
if no one ever replies. Also it is possible to have outlook
(express), for example, configured to not automatically send/receive.
In that case you could cancel a message any time before that manual
send. But remember only because it has not been sent to or received
by your nntp server.

See here's an example. I responded to the wrong post and didn't
notice it until after it was submitted to my nntp server. It is un-
cancelable and my mistake will be around as long as google or someone
else maintains an archive of these groups.

Jolly Fisherman wrote:

See here's an example. I responded to the wrong post and didn't
notice it until after it was submitted to my nntp server. It is un-
cancelable and my mistake will be around as long as google or someone
else maintains an archive of these groups.

I just forwarded an email to a newsgroup on a private server... on realising
that i'd lost all the HTML formatting i cancelled the post and resubmitted
it as HTML. I then reset the group and, low and behold, there was my HTML
post with the former nowhere to be found.

A perfect example of correct cancelling, so i thought i'd share it with you.



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