Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!anise!pst
From: pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Aug30.174430.20687@anise.acc.com>
Date: 30 Aug 89 17:44:30 GMT
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tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>Wow, that last paragraph was confusing.  Let me quote RFC 1036:
>    If the system is unable to cancel the message as requested, it
>    should not forward the cancellation request to its neighbor systems.

However, I believe Henry & Geoff decided that this was a bad idea, so they
will pass on cancel message.  (Right guys?)
-- 
A program should follow the 'Law of Least Astonishment.'  What is this law?
It is simply that the program should always respond to the user in the way
that astonishes him or her the least.
		-- from 'The Tao of Programming'