"nut" wrote in
:

Jolly Fisherman wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 20:41:01 -0000, "nut"
wrote:

atomweaver wrote:
NP. FYI, there is no "cancellling" a post in Usenet.

Yes there is.


There are a few caveats to his advice.

Shouldn't that be "in" his advice? I'm not sure whether you're
slagging him off or defending him.

What he said was wrong, so i corrected him... usenet posts can be
cancelled.

Although often ineffective, a message sent in error *should* be
cancelled... to say that it cannot be is to teach bad manners. We
already have enough goons on usenet - let's not train the puppies to
**** on the carpet eh?

Read the rest of the thread also.

I did, before i replied, but that's of no consequence... a thousand
lines of wisdom may camoflauge a line of nonsense, but it doesn't stop
it being nonsense.


Meh. You're right in that newsreaders have a "cancel message" command,
which will propagate across the newssevers. I've used it, but if the
message hits the Google Groups archive, or another web interface, before
the cancel command propagates, I don't see those sites pulling them from
their archive without further prompting (in the form of a direct
request/command sent to each web interface). So a sent message is as
good as "out there", due to Usenet's decentralized nature, and the
various web interfaces glomming off of it for web content at various
servers (which may or may not recognize your cancel command). You're
absolutely correct, though. A more correct reply might have been "good
luck canceling a Usenet post before someone replies".

DZ
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