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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews and the cancel control command
Message-ID: <613@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 06:26:06 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.185130.6956@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Feb4.205908.7048@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <SPIKE.91Feb6175121@world.std.com>
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In article <SPIKE.91Feb6175121@world.std.com> spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
|	 The task maybe bigger than you think!  I don't know about
|your site, but if I had to hand cancel articles I'd never have time to
|do anything else.

It's probably easiest just to ignore cancels.  The amount of extra disk
space taken up is a very small percentage of the news you get (usually,
unless your feed consists solely of talk.bizarre :-)), and the articles
will expire away eventually.
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Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP