Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site akgua.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!glc 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 Article-I.D.: akgua.944 Posted: Fri Aug 17 22:36:35 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 13:49:55 EDT References: <196@aesat.UUCP> <585@noscvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies/Bell Labs, Atlanta Lines: 20 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