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2002/8/26 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:25687 Activity:moderate
8/26    Hi.  Got a message "You can't cancel someone else's article" when I
        tried to cancel my own message from trn.

        from usenet:

> NOTE #2:  If you follow the instructions, but get an error message that
> says something like "You can't cancel someone else's article", that means
> that your newsreader was not installed properly.

        Is this a problem I need to fix or something else?  Thanks
        \_ It's already 'out there'. Cancelling it won't help.  I can still
           find things I posted years ago and cancelled minutes later on the
           various usenet archives.  The cancel message immediately follows
           the original in the archives... useless.