Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!munnari.oz!kre
From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: squelch control message -- a more powerful cancel
Summary: This *is* cancel, isn't it?
Keywords: net virus killer -- problems with 'cancel'
Message-ID: <2124@munnari.oz>
Date: 18 May 88 10:51:41 GMT
References: <279@comdesign.UUCP>
Sender: news@munnari.oz
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In article <279@comdesign.UUCP>, pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes:
< If a cancel message arrives before the original message, it goes into the
< bit-bucket.
< 	(a) it is not propigated
< 	(b) no action is taken

What version of news do you have?  It must be ancient.  In any recenty
version of news at all (from 2.10, and probably 2.9 and before) cancel
messages don't behave that way at all.

< However, if the
< target message is not yet there, it will:
< 	(a) place a fake entry into the history log (so when the new
< 	    message *does* arrive, it will be dumped into the bit-bucket.
< 	(b) propigate to all usenet neighbors

This is what cancel does.

kre