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Re: Possible problem/bug
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:44:33 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
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> > This is an unfortunate side effect of the "no edit, only cancel"
> > policy here... but this side effect is, I think, massively drowned
> > out by the positive effects of not being able to revise your words
> > in a way that makes replies inconsistent.
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> I used to be able to use Supersedes to change my articles, but I
> haven't been able to do that anymore. I don't know if it is a policy
> change or a bug.
Speculating: I suspect it was a policy change because the effect of
Supersede on the historical record is that you changed a particular article
at the very point in the thread where it previously was, which is in effect
an edit. Mail subscribers, as you say, are aware that you did it, but news
and web viewers who come later are not. All they see are the edited words.
Todd posted some material on why the policy is the way it is a while back,
as the policy itself was discussed at some length IIRC.
> Superseding is more or less the same as canceling an article and
> posting a new one, but it is done in one run. It has the same
> problems as canceling and reposting with respect to the
> mail-interface: Subscribers to the mail interface will get multiple
> copies.
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> Fredrik
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| (...) No, that is not true. Superseding is technically mostly the same as canceling and reposting the article. The new article gets a new Message-ID and a new article number. It's not like editing an article at all. I've used Supersedes on LUGNET a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I used to be able to use Supersedes to change my articles, but I haven't been able to do that anymore. I don't know if it is a policy change or a bug. Superseding is more or less the same as canceling an article and posting a new one, but it (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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