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Re: rude (Re: eBay's Auction for America)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:10:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Todd or Suz
> > This is in the wrong group, can you cancel it (and this one).
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> Just as a procedural note, for anyone reading this, not just Scott, it has
> been my experience that "this" (as used above) as a referent isn't
> sufficiently precise. What Todd always seemed to want was a note sent to him
> with the specific post or posts uniquely identified (via a URL, or via their
> number (such as 9605 which is the number of the post this post references)
> and the group name) and specific phrasing along the lines of "please cancel
> the referenced post".
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> No other phrasing I ever tried, no omission of any of that info, ever
> resulted in a post actually being cancelled, although I have tried other
> phrasings.
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> Whether Suzanne has instituted a different policy is not clear to me at this
> time. Some relaxation of the formula certainly would be welcome to me, as my
> cancel requests did not always take even if I tried them repeatedly.
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> If the person is posting via NNTP, though, they can cancel it themselves if
> their newsreader supports cancel. At least they USED to be able to, I have
> not tried since the security augmentation went in. I think this was
> discussed but did not search to find it.
>
> Hope that is of some help.
The policy above applies. Send detailed mail to: admin@lugnet.com
-Suz
LUGNET Admin
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