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---+ Canceling Course News Posts

Course accounts are able to cancel news articles to the course's =uw.cs= newsgroup with the =cancel-news= script.  

   * articles may be canceled from the command-line by specifying the article number.
   * articles may be canceled by piping the offending article (at least the headers) into =cancel-news=.

   * the script will display the entire article in a pager (hit q to only show the first page).
   * the user is normally required to confirm the cancellation with a =Y= or =y= followed by carriage-return.
      * a =-f= (or =--force=) parameter will "force" the cancellation with no article display, no confirmation; use with appropriate care.
   * a =-d= (or =--dry-run=) parameter will do everything up until the actual cancel, to see what the program would do.

---++ Examples
---+++ Example 1: article number on command-line

<pre>
cs134@student.cs~> cancel-news 49152
Path: news.uwaterloo.ca!services108.cs.uwaterloo.ca!spammer
From: spammer <spammer@uwaterloo.ca>
Newsgroups: uw.cs.cs134
Subject: spammity spam
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:15:15 -0400
Organization: University of Waterloo
Lines: 1
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1006041614540.11075@services108.cs.uwaterloo.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: services108.cs.uwaterloo.ca
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
X-Trace: rumours.uwaterloo.ca 1275682516 25772 129.97.152.165 (4 Jun 2010 20:15:16 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@uwaterloo.ca
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 20:15:16 +0000 (UTC)
Xref: news.uwaterloo.ca uw.cs.cs134:49152

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</pre>
[ ... 20 lines ... ]

=-- more --=

[ press q ]

=Confirm article cancel [Yy] and press return:= [ type y and press return ]
<pre>
Done.
cs134@student.cs~> 
</pre>

---+++ Example 2: send article from another program

   * User is running =mutt= to read news (as course-account user).
   * the currently viewed article should be cancelled.
   * user types =|cancel-news= (first character is vertical bar/pipe symbol) and views the article
   * user types =y= and presses return.


-- Main.DanielAllen - 04 Jun 2010

Topic revision: r2 - 2010-06-07 - DanielAllen

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