On 6/9/2011 4:50 AM, Cecil Moore wrote:

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Please forgive the unfinished posting above. It happened without any
action on my part.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Cecil:

Don't even ask such a silly thing, happens all the time, here.

I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,
look near the bottom and find "Cancel Message", choosing that will
create a popup which will ask you to confirm your wish to delete the
message ...

Good luck ...

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Regards,
JS
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain
the people, it’s an instrument for the people to restrain the
government.” -- Patrick Henry

On Jun 9, 10:30*am, John Smith wrote:
I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,

I was previously using Thunderbird but AT&T dropped their news-server
function and I am now using Google Groups which apparently doesn't
allow a posting to be canceled.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

On 6/9/2011 2:37 PM, Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:30 am, John wrote:
I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,

I was previously using Thunderbird but AT&T dropped their news-server
function and I am now using Google Groups which apparently doesn't
allow a posting to be canceled.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Give "Eternal September" a look-see.

John - KD5YI

On Jun 9, 12:37*pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:30*am, John Smith wrote:

I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,

I was previously using Thunderbird but AT&T dropped their news-server
function and I am now using Google Groups which apparently doesn't
allow a posting to be canceled.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

Try the "More options", to the right of your name at the top of the
displayed message. There's a "remove" option in there, that doesn't
appear if you're not the author of the message. I assume that will
delete it, though I don't actually have experience doing that, at
least not recently.

Cheers,
Tom

On 6/9/2011 12:37 PM, Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:30 am, John wrote:
I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,

I was previously using Thunderbird but AT&T dropped their news-server
function and I am now using Google Groups which apparently doesn't
allow a posting to be canceled.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

You can get a free email account he

http://gmx.com/

You can then use that email acount to get a free post/read account he

http://eternal-september.org/RegisterNewsAccount.php

You will be back in business with tbird and an email that people can
spam from here to high heaven, without worry ...

Just in case you are interested ... good luck, either way.

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Regards,
JS
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain
the people, it’s an instrument for the people to restrain the
government.” -- Patrick Henry

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:54:07 -0700, John Smith
wrote:

On 6/9/2011 12:37 PM, Cecil Moore wrote:
On Jun 9, 10:30 am, John wrote:
I just highlight, and then right click the post, of mine, which is in
error. If using thunderbird (and I think you are), a menu will pop up,

I was previously using Thunderbird but AT&T dropped their news-server
function and I am now using Google Groups which apparently doesn't
allow a posting to be canceled.
--
73, Cecil, w5dxp.com

You can get a free email account he

http://gmx.com/

You can then use that email acount to get a free post/read account he

http://eternal-september.org/RegisterNewsAccount.php

You will be back in business with tbird and an email that people can
spam from here to high heaven, without worry ...

Just in case you are interested ... good luck, either way.

If you don't want want to mess around registering for the news server
or getting a throw away address, you can use the free nntp.aioe.org.
Just plug it into TB or any newsreader and away you go. There are more
restrictions than eternal-september but if you have a life other than
Usenet they won't bother you...

(http://www.aioe.org/index.php?home)

On 6/9/2011 8:46 PM, AJL wrote:

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If you don't want want to mess around registering for the news server
or getting a throw away address, you can use the free nntp.aioe.org.
Just plug it into TB or any newsreader and away you go. There are more
restrictions than eternal-september but if you have a life other than
Usenet they won't bother you...

(http://www.aioe.org/index.php?home)

True, the thing with aioe.org is that you don't need to create a
password and no need for a real email addy, even of the throwaway kind ...

This is great in an aid of making the world wide wiretap more difficult
to track/trace you, couple that up with a phony isp number, change the
volume id only hard drive now and then, and use mac makeup to switch the
mac no. on your nic now and then and it becomes even more difficult, use
another identity to make it appear as if you are really someone else and
you start getting a bit of security ...

Really, no one should be using their real isp for usenet anyway!
Everyone should be pretending like it's 1984, which it is!

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Regards,
JS
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain
the people, it’s an instrument for the people to restrain the
government.” -- Patrick Henry

Great! Thank you for your useful comments!

Camelot