Ok so if a mailing list gateway @bwalk.dm.com pumps thousands of broken posts into usenet you don't wish them to be removed from usenet?
That would be for Dimitri to decide for himself, and not for some cocksucker to take a unilateral decision on.
I have made no such unilateral decision, I have simply asked a question of the good Doctor.
Quite so, maybe this was phrased in such a way as it looked insulting to you, it wasn`t intended to be so, merely a general swipe at cancel-forgers.
Of course disabling cancels on all news-servers would mean such a freak article couldn`t be cancelled, even by it`s author,
Wouldn't authentercated cancel models be better so an artical could be cancelled by its author and no other.
This would be a good idea, which I thought about when I posted the article, but it`s probably too much to expect all the news-admins of the major sites to keep up to date with their s/w and for the s/w authors to write in such functionality, just turning of cancels is easier. Datacomms Technologies data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: FC76DA85 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"