Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: article changes by moderator -- either timestamp or content Message-ID: <1989Dec19.000314.11237@NCoast.ORG> Date: 19 Dec 89 00:03:14 GMT References: <1989Dec17.172253.21978@NCoast.ORG> <~#}VS@rpi.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH Lines: 24 As quoted from <~#}VS@rpi.edu> by tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence): +--------------- | In <1989Dec17.172253.21978@NCoast.ORG> allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery): | > You'd probably hate comp.sources.misc even more, because articles go | > out with *my* name on them. There's a good reason for that, too: if | > something has to be canceled for some reason [...] I need to be the | > article's "owner" or I can't cancel it. | | More precisely, the Sender, or From if no Sender, headers should | agree. Some news systems don't even check that since cancel messages +--------------- I had things set up this way originally; I couldn't cancel things. Rn wouldn't let me, readnews wouldn't let me, vnews wouldn't let me. So I gave up. I find myself wondering whether the RFCs and the newsreaders have different ideas of the rules.... ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery allbery@NCoast.ORG, BALLBERY (MCI Mail), ALLBERY (Delphi) uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu bsa@telotech.uucp *(comp.sources.misc mail to comp-sources-misc[-request]@backbone.site, please)* *Third party vote-collection service: send mail to allbery@uunet.uu.net (ONLY)* expnet.all: Experiments in *net management and organization. Mail me for info.