Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews and the cancel control command
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.185130.6956@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Feb4.002104.12830@wolves.uucp>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 1991 18:51:30 GMT

In article <1991Feb4.002104.12830@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>Has anyone else felt the desire to have the cancel command be a bit more
>controlled in Cnews? ...

The desire, yes... but the flesh is weak. :-)  The problem is that forging
news articles (including control messages) is trivial, and there is no
simple check that cannot be bypassed easily by the determined canceller.
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"Maybe we should tell the truth?"      | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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