Name
cancel-news — Cancel a particular post made to the course newsgroupDescription
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
- 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
cs134@student.cs~> cancel-news 49152
Path: news.uwaterloo.ca!services108.cs.uwaterloo.ca!spammer
From: spammer
Newsgroups: uw.cs.cs134
Subject: spammity spam
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 16:15:15 -0400
Organization: University of Waterloo
Lines: 1
Message-ID:
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
Here are the products we offer.
_[ ... 20 lines ... ]_
-- more --
_[ press q ]_
Confirm article cancel [Yy] and press return: _[ type y and press return ]_
Done.
cs134@student.cs~>
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