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From: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help: 2400 baud modems
Keywords: 2400 baud external modems info needed
Message-ID: <428@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 22 Jul 88 13:01:34 GMT
References: <263@thor.wright.EDU>
Reply-To: johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Wayne D. T. Johnson)
Organization: NCR Comten, St Paul
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In article <263@thor.wright.EDU> cnee@wright.EDU (Cheng-Lee Nee) writes:
>Hello, netland:
>
>I am sorry about posting this twice because I give the wrong E-mail address
>in the first one (shame on me)! Here's the story again:
>
This is not a FLAME, just a suggestion.

Most systems support a cancel command that will allow you to cancel your
own article.  It generates a control message that will chase your article
through the network and try to kill it.  If the Cancel is done soon enough
after the article is first posted, it can kill it in your local node.  If
its already spread to adjoining nodes it may catch it there...

BTW, If the news network spreads the news like a virus, whats the equivalant of
a cancel command?  Maybe we've invented a new concept, a virus that seeks and
kill another virus?
-- 
Wayne Johnson                 (Voice) 612-638-7665
NCR Comten, Inc.             (E-MAIL) W.Johnson@StPaul.NCR.COM or
Roseville MN 55113                    johnson@c10sd1.StPaul.NCR.COM
These opinions (or spelling) do not necessarily reflect those of NCR Comten.