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From: glc@akgua.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: can I abort `r' in readnews?
Message-ID: <944@akgua.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 22:36:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 17 22:36:35 1984
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Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta
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This has been covered before.  

When you do 'r', you are placed into an editor with some header
lines already supplied.  To abort, merely delete all the lines in the 
editor buffer, WRITE OUT THE NULL FILE, and exit from the editor.

The mailer is subsequently supplied the null file for mailing.
Since it can't find a "To:" line, it doesn't have any way of
knowing where to send the null file.  You get a little error
message and that's the end of it.

This same technique applies for 'f' (followup) aborting.

Cheers,
  Lindsay

Lindsay Cleveland  (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc)
AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga
(404) 447-3909 ...  Cornet 583-3909