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1997-07-31 - Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies’s Solo - free download)

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From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu>
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
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Message ID: <19970731090412.58654@math.uiuc.edu>
Reply To: <3.0.2.32.19970730223642.007b2100@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1997-07-31 14:04:22 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:04:22 -0700 (PDT)

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From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@math.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 07:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: freedom-knights@jetcafe.org
Subject: Re: forged cancels (Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download)
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Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> writes:

> Newsadmins who auto-cancel cross-posts are acting counter-productively
> and censorously.

	I'm not aware of anybody that does that.  The only crossposts that
are killed are those that reach a BI of 20, and for a single post to do
that would require the message to be crossposted to 400 newsgroups.  Which
doesn't happen.

	It might interest you to know that a cancel will kill all the
crossposts in a single message, BTW.  Your "cancelling 99 of the 100
articles thing" does save lots of reader time.  

	(If you're going to talk about cancels authoritatively, please
read my Cancel FAQ - it's got huge piles of information on this stuff.)

				- Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@uiuc.edu)
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