Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Sep6.213821.27578@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <536@logicon.arpa> <3246@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <1989Aug30.174430.20687@anise.acc.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 89 21:38:21 GMT

In article <1989Aug30.174430.20687@anise.acc.com> pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina) writes:
>>    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?)

That is correct.  Actually this wasn't a decision per se, since at the
time we sorted this out, all existing implementations did likewise, and
the RFC change that made it technically illegal came rather later.
More shortly on why we still think forwarding cancellations is the right
thing to do.
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