I received a cancellation request in the ng submissions today. It is now near impossible to cancel posts that are on news servers because the news servers operators rarely accept cancellations. We have hackers and spammers to thank for that. Off the top of my head, I think it was around 1999 when some miscreant submitted several thousand cancellations to wipe out one of the .alt newsgroups in which he was on the short end of a flame war.
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That is correct. I don't know of any news server that will still honor cancelations. There are still plenty anti-social posters though. Another moderated group has one who forges the headers to bypass the moderator. It only takes one bad apple to ruin it for the rest of us.
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Was it "moi"????
I edited a previous post to make subject agree with verb, and then posted it while also deleting the first post. Now on I'll just assume everybody else can read typoese. (grin) ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA
I know the the server I use, at rahul.net, accepts cancels but it's a pretty minor server. Were I a news server, I would propogate sporadic cancels to all my feeding servers. It can't hurt. If there's a cancel-flood, shut it off. S.
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