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Re: Cancelling Posts?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 23 Jan 2000 01:32:02 GMT
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000 11:37:12 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> I don't believe you can cancel posts with your newsreader that you
> posted with the web interface. If you can, that would solve the problem
> for a class of users, but not all.
If you have the newwsreader set up right, (email address and Name
should match the article), they'll usually cancel for you unless
they're braindead. I suspect OE and Netscape of being braindead in
this regard, though.
All you need is a proper cancel-forger, except do _not_. _*EVER*_. use
it to forge a cancel for a post other than your own.
> My opinion is that the sticking point is proving (within a program's
> logic) beyond a reasonable shadow of doubt that you are who you say you
> are, else non authors can cancel each other's posts.
It is currently possible for people to forge both posts and cancels
(which are msotly the same, after all) through the NNTP interface.
It's not possible to do so untraceably.
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> Todd could do it. I remain convinced. He is quite clever. It's just not
> as high on his list of priorities as it is on mine.
Yup. And I suspect as long as the amount of requests he gets to cancel
posts remains limited, he'll keep it on backburner.
Jasper
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| I don't believe you can cancel posts with your newsreader that you posted with the web interface. If you can, that would solve the problem for a class of users, but not all. However, I still think this is a facility that Todd should provide. It is (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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