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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <9377@looking.on.ca>
Date: 8 Sep 89 06:34:05 GMT
References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <536@logicon.arpa> <3246@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <1989Sep6.221624.28405@utzoo.uucp> <66812@uunet.UU.NET> <1989Sep7.192336.24604@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: query

The only reason to forward on a cancel message for a message that you
haven't gotten yet is if you fear that:

	your downstream sites also have an alternate feed, and

	the alternate feed runs an old B news that ignores cancels
	for messages that have not arrived, and

	the alternate feed gets articles out of order, so that a
	cancel arrives before a message.


I hardly think this is worth it.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473