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    (canceled) —Fredrik Glöckner
   
        Re: Cancel and supersedes —Matthew Miller
   (...) It supports cancel, at least. (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cancel and supersedes —Fredrik Glöckner
   (...) And supersedes as well, it turns out. I misspelled cancel in the original article, and superseded with a new, corrected article. I'm happy to see that the server supports this. Fredrik (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cancel and supersedes —Sarah Heacock
   (...) What is a supersede? I have heard about and know how to do cancels. But never heard of supersede. Sarah Heacock sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cancel and supersedes —Fredrik Glöckner
   (...) Say you've posted an article, and you find that you've written something incorrect. What do you do? Well, you can cancel the article and post a new one, or you can supersede the incorrect article with a new one, which is a tad more simple. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Cancel and supersedes —Steve Bliss
   (...) Or you can just post a follow-up which says, "Oops, I goofed. Here's the correction." Which would be the more proper approach, if more than a trivial amount of time has passed since the erroneous posting. I've not used either cancel or (...) (26 years ago, 26-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
 

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