From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnus-summary-cancel-article Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:52:07 +0200 Message-ID: <874ncah7a0.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87li5mfuac.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372938752 22580 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2013 11:52:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 11:52:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 04 13:52:32 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5Q-000201-Hk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:52:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5Q-0003Fu-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5F-0003FN-9b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5E-0005Iq-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5E-0005Ia-5D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 07:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uui5B-0001jS-Pe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.67.142]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:52:17 +0200 Original-Received: from tsdh by tsdh.uni-koblenz.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:52:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tsdh.uni-koblenz.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SijFV27twzuRP3zJmBvBVOKFf5c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91932 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: Hi Emanuel, > I accidentally sent a post three times to gnu.emacs.help - sorry > about that, but perhaps it wasn't so grave a mistake because some > lists/groups and/or clients (?) discard duplicate messages as > flood/spam protection - anyway, I tried > > gnus-summary-cancel-article > > but it said > > Couldn't send message via news: 441 Invalid Control Message > > My question - is this anything that works anymore or is it a > wasted effort, perhaps especially for the list/group hybrids? ,----[ (info "(gnus)Canceling and Superseding") ] | Have you ever written something, and then decided that you really, | really, really wish you hadn’t posted that? | | Well, you can’t cancel mail, but you can cancel posts. | | Find the article you wish to cancel (you can only cancel your own | articles, so don’t try any funny stuff). Then press ‘C’ or ‘S c’ | (‘gnus-summary-cancel-article’). Your article will be canceled—machines | all over the world will be deleting your article. This command uses the | process/prefix convention (*note Process/Prefix::). | | Be aware, however, that not all sites honor cancels, so your article | may live on here and there, while most sites will delete the article in | question. `---- So probably your news server doesn't honor cancels. I remember that some time ago, I did cancel an article of mine at our local news server, so it should work in certain cases. Bye, Tassilo