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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Forwarding Cancels For Unreceived Articles (Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles)
Keywords: anecdotal, long
Message-ID: <11111@looking.on.ca>
Date: 11 Sep 89 17:21:41 GMT
References: <5200@looking.on.ca> <66812@uunet.UU.NET> <1989Sep7.151826.11816@i88.isc.com> <3919@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> <5553@videovax.tv.Tek.com>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

Well, perhaps what's needed is an emergency cancel and a regular cancel.
Actually, a cancel to news.config.ctl will probably zip around the whole
net very quickly, although that may not be widely known.

All I know is that I put out around 200 cancel messages per day.  Most
of them should never leave this site, and only a few are intended to
make it more than one or two sites downstream.   Supersedes would have
been a lot easier but we all know why I couldn't use it.

It will cause no harm to send them all out over the whole subnet, it will
just waste disk space and money.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473