Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!abaa!esker
From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Post a message but hide local users from seeing it.  How?
Message-ID: <2785@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 89 21:11:21 GMT
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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[Eat away]

Well it bit me.  I posted to a newsgroup that I wanted seen outside of my
current local, but would have prefered keeping it quiet at my job.  But it
has now spread like wild fire rumours.

Question!  How can you post a message but not let the local server show it
to others on the server.  The only way I know is to post, wait a day for it to
propagate, cancel the original message locally.  This leaves a hole of a day
for local users to see it and I don't know if the server, when it calls for
downloads will see (the originally cancelled) message on the host and
download it.  This would then undo a cancelled message locally.

Also, will a cancel request be sent up the line eventually cancelling the
previously propagated message at other locals.  This is very important that
I know about soon, before I try this trick again.

Any comments.  Pleas email (or post if of net usefulness).
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