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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <536@logicon.arpa>
Date: 30 Aug 89 06:11:27 GMT
References: <5200@looking.on.ca>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <5200@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Admittedly, nobody on the net has ever made serious use of [the Supersedes]
>header before. 

Have a look at comp.mail.maps.

>One messy solution is to give up on supersedes and just use cancel
>messages -- lots and lots of them.  I could see generating over 100 per
>day, although few would make it past the first few downstream levels.
               ^^^
Few cancel messages, or few "real" articles?  The real articles might
not make it very far, but the cancel messages would be fully
propagated unless you used something like the Supersedes header to
cancel *them*.

>Any other thoughts on how we might make supersedes work?

Allow multiple message ids to be specified in a single Supersedes
line.  Then, each article could supersede *all* (or at least many) of
its predecessors.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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