Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!oliveb!jerry
From: jerry@oliveb.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: squelch control message -- a more powerful cancel
Message-ID: <22048@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 18 May 88 23:29:42 GMT
References: <279@comdesign.UUCP>
Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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In article <279@comdesign.UUCP> pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes:
>If the squelch message makes it to a site that already has the "target"
>message to be killed, it behaves just like "cancel".  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.

But cancel already does!

Cancel control messages already do fake the history so that the
canceled message will be rejected if it arrives later!