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Subject: 
Re: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
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lugnet.off-topic.test.foo
Date: 
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:03:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, Dan Boger wrote:

<snip>

Heh, relax :)  I could still see it, because (as you might forget), I
read news-by-mail.  While your post is canceled to anyone looking at
it NOW via the web interface, email users, and some NNTP users might
still be able to read it.

For News-to-Mail to work, one must subscribe to that particular NG...

So that means...

(adds up column of numbers in head, carries the one, divides by the sqr root of
pi...)

Dan subscribed to Foo!

Who in their unaltered state of mind would subscribe to this corner of the
sub-ether-net??

People like Dan... :)


I take it to mean that you now have the ability to cancel people's
posts?  Or can anyone cancel their own posts (via the web interface)?

I can just see Larry, using his best Ahnold voice...

"Hasta Lavista!  Cancel THIS!" and he presses a button and message gets
cancelled.

Kinda reminiscent of a SB...  "Message deleted???  No!!"

Dave K



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(...) Yes... tempting, isn't it... there are so MANY posts that are a waste of electrons :-), but... no... Seriously... Cancelling posts without permission from their authors is a grave violation of the trust that all users have in the sanctity of (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo)

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  Re: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
 
(...) Heh, relax :) I could still see it, because (as you might forget), I read news-by-mail. While your post is canceled to anyone looking at it NOW via the web interface, email users, and some NNTP users might still be able to read it. I take it (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo)

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