And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.

-jim

Jim Stewart wrote:

And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.

Whoops, was supposed to go to our Taiwanese
parts broker..

Jim Stewart wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote:

And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.


Whoops, was supposed to go to our Taiwanese
parts broker..


Been there, done that...

The oopsasecond is defined as the time between hitting "send" and
realizing you're still pointing at a newsgroup.

Happy Holidays,

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

Jeff Wisnia wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote:

And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.



Whoops, was supposed to go to our Taiwanese
parts broker..


Been there, done that...

The oopsasecond is defined as the time between hitting "send" and
realizing you're still pointing at a newsgroup.

Happy Holidays,

Jeff


I thought that was an 'OhNoSecond"

Carla

You can "cancel" a message, if you're quick.
The trick is to get the "cancel" message to your provider before the
message has been sent out all over the world.
I'm not sure about other newsreaders... but Outlook Express has it
built-in.
David


"Carla Fong" wrote in message
...
Jeff Wisnia wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote:

And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.



Whoops, was supposed to go to our Taiwanese
parts broker..


Been there, done that...

The oopsasecond is defined as the time between hitting "send" and
realizing you're still pointing at a newsgroup.

Happy Holidays,

Jeff


I thought that was an 'OhNoSecond"

Carla

David Courtney wrote:
You can "cancel" a message, if you're quick.
The trick is to get the "cancel" message to your provider before the
message has been sent out all over the world.
I'm not sure about other newsreaders... but Outlook Express has it
built-in.
You can cancel ANY message you have sent, any time! Of course,
cancelling the message the next day doesn't stop people from reading
it in the interim, but it will remove it from nearly all the servers
that got it originally. I have done this occasionally when I realized I
said something redundant, or that came out totally wrong.

Since usenet is not a guaranteed-delivery system, like e-mail, both
the posting of messages and the cancelling of them is on a
time-available basis on various servers, and they may miss either or
both the message and.or the cancel.

Jon

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:38:05 -0600, Jon Elson wrote:
David Courtney wrote:
You can "cancel" a message, if you're quick.
The trick is to get the "cancel" message to your provider before the
message has been sent out all over the world.
I'm not sure about other newsreaders... but Outlook Express has it
built-in.
You can cancel ANY message you have sent, any time! Of course,
cancelling the message the next day doesn't stop people from reading
it in the interim, but it will remove it from nearly all the servers
that got it originally.

That hasn't been true for more than a decade. cancel messages are
easily forged, were widely abused, and are nearly universally ignored by
newsservers, by configuration.

It was a great idea, which was abused by people with less than honorable
intent, so it's nearly worthless. Hm, pardon me, I need to go check my
email...

According to Jon Elson :
David Courtney wrote:
You can "cancel" a message, if you're quick.
The trick is to get the "cancel" message to your provider before the
message has been sent out all over the world.
I'm not sure about other newsreaders... but Outlook Express has it
built-in.
You can cancel ANY message you have sent, any time! Of course,
cancelling the message the next day doesn't stop people from reading
it in the interim, but it will remove it from nearly all the servers
that got it originally. I have done this occasionally when I realized I
said something redundant, or that came out totally wrong.

Cancelling also only works on servers which still *accept*
cancels. Thanks to massive abuse of this capability by a character
posting as "hipcrime" (among others), many news servers have disabled
the cancelling feature.

Since usenet is not a guaranteed-delivery system, like e-mail, both
the posting of messages and the cancelling of them is on a
time-available basis on various servers, and they may miss either or
both the message and.or the cancel.

Agreed. Or the cancel *might* arrive before the original
message, in which case it is rather server-dependent whether the cancel
takes effect or not.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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Where's it at?
Thanks
Karl


"David Courtney" wrote in message
...
You can "cancel" a message, if you're quick.
The trick is to get the "cancel" message to your provider before the
message has been sent out all over the world.
I'm not sure about other newsreaders... but Outlook Express has it
built-in.
David


"Carla Fong" wrote in message
...
Jeff Wisnia wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote:

And the beautiful card. Merry Christmas
and happy new year to you and everyone at
Cathay Kim.



Whoops, was supposed to go to our Taiwanese
parts broker..


Been there, done that...

The oopsasecond is defined as the time between hitting "send" and
realizing you're still pointing at a newsgroup.

Happy Holidays,

Jeff


I thought that was an 'OhNoSecond"

Carla