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On Tuesday, in article <832079387snz@dsl.co.uk>
     bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

BK> Another goody I'd like to see in a revision of DNews is the capability of
BK> posting a cancel article.  I don't often feel the need to cancel my own
BK> articles (and whilst I'd *like* to cancel some others, I feel that's not
BK> my place) so when I do, it takes me about 9 attempts to get things right.

I think this is a good idea: I've refrained from cancelling one or
two articles of my own over the last few months simply because I was
too busy/lazy/whatever to dig out the relevant docs on the syntax.

However, I'm a bit wary of allowing too powerful a cancel feature:
I'd like to see some fairly tight restrictions built-in, such as only
allowing cancelling of messages from your own site, though I
appreciate this might be a wee bit complex for sites with the
mail-forwarding option (myco.demon.co.uk=myco.co.uk).  However, I'd
not like to see users too readilu enabled to issue cancels for other
peoples postings.  Note that I don't suggest checking the
X-NNTP-Posting-Host header: it should be possible to cancel forged
postings.

Another good idea might be the ability to post an article to
supersede an existing one.  This could generate the correct headers
and bring up the original text without quote-marks or sig: it would
be useful not just for announcements, but for those embarrassing
occasions when a typo creeps into the first line (sorry, Brian
<grin>).

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