To the moderator

:) There is no moderator! Once you hit send, you gotta live with the words you wrote.

Dave

C & M wrote:

Not necessarily. You can cancel your usenet message, and before it is read if you act quickly enough.

I've cancelled a few of my messages within seconds when I realized I wanted to start all over with a new message. I'd get responses to the "cancelled" message, even though it disappeared from my newsreader's screen. So now I try harder to compose more carefully.

Dave

Guess who wrote:

The cabal (there is no cabal) will get right on it.

Some ISP's allow cancellation on their servers, but that won't cancel the message when it has been echoed to a number of other servers out there. Most messages are echoed out rather quickly.

Request denied.

Moderator

Doug?

Can you take care of this?

Problem with that is, that due to more than a decade of cancel control messages being abused, many newsservers don't honor them. So, truly, once you pull the trigger, it's out there forever. Google _will_ have it.

Gosh...where's Vito to save us, at a time like this when we need him?

Last I heard, he was over at alt.usenet.kooks, complaining about his recent Kook of the Month award... and of course the AUKers referred to his complaints as his "acceptance speech"...

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

Hell, all this time I thought BAD was the moderator.

Priceless. And where better to have him expending his energies.

OUCH....

But if he survives, he'll only be eating crepes for the rest of his life. He must eat, or he'll flounder.