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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: Cancelled articles
- Message-ID: <19921112192641SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
- Sender: MVS NNTP News Reader <NNMVS@MVS.draper.com>
- Nntp-Posting-Host: mvs.draper.com
- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <2AFA26BB.26077@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:26:00 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- In article <2AFA26BB.26077@news.service.uci.edu>,
- ruman@meroot.eng.uci.edu (ruman) writes:
-
- > I would like to know if it is possible to read a cancelled article
- >without sending a control mesg cancelling the cancel. I read news via
- >NNTP. I tried telnet to the NNTP port to retrieve the cancelled
- >article, but am unable to get it. ("article number invalid", was the
- >the message i believe).
-
- You're probably too late. Most likely the news server has already
- deleted the article from the newsgroup directory.
-
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
-