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From: stevea@laiter.i88.isc.com (Steve Alexander)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Sep7.151826.11816@i88.isc.com>
Date: 7 Sep 89 15:18:26 GMT
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In article <66812@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>If the article is not present, then you can't cancel it. if you cant
>cancel it, then you dont forward the cancel message.
>--rick

Anyone who's been around long enough to remember ``Orphaned Response''
should know that that's a bad way to do things.  Because 3 hours later
when the article arrives, it'll never get cancelled.  Then you'll forward
it to all your downstream sites.  C news may be violating the RFC, but
its approach makes more sense in the real world.

-- 
Steve Alexander, Software Technologies Group    | stevea@i88.isc.com
Interactive Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL | ...!{sun,ico}!laidbak!stevea