On Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:58:33 EDT, you said:
> Is there any way to recall, retract or delete a posting to an
> unmoderated and unedited list?

Nope.  Once you hit send, it's *GONE*.  You can't meaningfully retract it.

By the time you finish a Homer Simpson-esque 'Doh!', that mail quite probably
has hit the Listserv, been processed, and in recipient's mailboxes already.

Seriously - 'sf90m' reports that yesterday, we had some 140K
delivieries outbound, with 80% of them being delivered in under 2
minutes.  60% are out the door in under 10 seconds. This would be even
lower, except for some local bogosity with the MAXBSMTP setting being
incredibly high....

Moral: Use a mail program that provides a "Confirm Send" pop-up. ;)

> Is there any way to delete this posting from the archives?

Well.. you have to plead with the Listserv administrator to invoke a
text editor on the file... Locally, we usually try to avoid it unless
it's something such as a *very large* unintended base-64 attachment that
will cause problems with anybody retrieving the logfiles.

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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
                                Virginia Tech