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From: bmw@aesat.UUCP (Bruce Walker)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: can I abort `r' in readnews?
Message-ID: <196@aesat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 11:16:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: aesat.196
Posted: Mon Aug 13 11:16:40 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 13-Aug-84 13:14:23 EDT
Organization: AES Data Inc., Mississauga Ont., Canada
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     I have, on occaision, accidently gotten myself into `reply' mode while
running `readnews' (on a 4.1BSD VAX (if important)).  The trouble is, there
seems to be no way to back out of this situation, which becomes embarrasing
when one realizes that no matter what one does, some unsuspecting article
author is going to receive (at least) a null message from yours-truly.

     The question: IS there an abort?  I have tried deleting all the lines in
the edit buffer in the hopes that the mailer wouldn't know who it should send
to; unfortunatly, the mailer is smart, and keeps the address privately.  I have
tried  :q!  but whatever was in the buffer gets sent anyway!

     COULD the user-interface be *SO UNFRIENDLY???*


Bruce Walker     ..decvax!utzoo!aesat!bmw