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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A possible solution to the Expires: problem
Message-ID: <36a015a0.b8ab@apollo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 10:40:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: apollo.36a015a0.b8ab
Posted: Wed Aug 12 10:40:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 05:39:12 EDT
References: <1026@moscom.UUCP>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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    How about a new header line of the form:
    	Supersedes: message_id [message_id ...]
    When an article comes in with a Supersedes line news posts it normally
    and then does a cancel on the message_ids indicated.

I liked this idea so much, and it's so easy to do, that I went ahead
and implemented it.  It seems to work great.  I have posted the source
to news.software.b.