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Subject: 
Re: DejaNews and sff.net
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:38:43 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
updates when someone cancels an article.  I don't know if that's a problem
or not.  It might be possible to keep 'control' hidden from the groups
listing but yet make it subscribeable (for the sake of NNRP servers) and
then make it reject any messages which aren't control messages (to prevent
its misuse as a discussion/test/play area).

That might be a good idea.

I'm used to usenet, where you can't rely on a cancel working anyway...

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: DejaNews and sff.net
 
(...) One note about caching NNRP servers: To prevent newbie confusion and abuse, the 'control' group here is write-only; clients can't see it in the groups listing via NNTP, and can't subscribe to it even if they know it's there. This means that a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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