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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: unable to abort replies
Message-ID: <296@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 18:45:30 EST
Article-I.D.: qantel.296
Posted: Wed Nov  7 18:45:30 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 04:36:31 EST
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Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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>There is something not very robust about the method of cancelling replies
>from vnews (2.10.2).  Supposedly if one exits from the editor without
>editing the file it should cancel the reply.  However there seems to be
>a high probablility that the reply will get sent anyway.  

I have experienced this, too.  It happens maybe 7 out of ten times.  I
haven't been able to figure it out, either.  I'm on a VAX with 4.2, just
like Bill.

>Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to add another test like
>cancelling the reply if the size of the edited file has not grown after the
>editing.  This would also be robust against a person starting to edit a reply
>but deciding against it after having started it.

How about a question for the human to answer, after the exit from the
editor, like "Do you really, really want to send this?" or something.  
Seems like that would be easy to implement.  I guess rn has this feature.
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Steve Vance
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Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA