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Subject: 
Re: Possible problem/bug
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:04:56 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> writes:
> 
> >  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.
> 
> 
> 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.

Well then never mind, I'm all wet and I have no idea why it stopped working.
Sounds like a bug rather than an intended policy change.



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  Re: Possible problem/bug
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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