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  Re: Cancel and supersedes
 
(...) It supports cancel, at least. (26 years ago, 23-Oct-98, to lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Cancel and supersedes
 
(...) 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 I misspelled cancel in the original article, and superseded with a new, corrected article.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
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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
 
(...) 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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