🚀 go-pugleaf

[I've set followups to news.admin.net-abuse.only, but please note my
comments below on why this issue is *not* relevent to that group.]

>>>>> "Borg" == Borg  <vladimip@uniserve.com> writes:

 >> >So when a message is cancelled because you don't like the title,
 >> >that is OK?
 >> 
 >> No Danny.  When the title contravenes the Criminal Code of Canada and
 >> refers to the Head of State in obscene language, then it is perfactly
 >> in order to cancel such a message.

 Borg> Then cancel it so that it is not distributed in Canada by Canadian
 Borg> newsservers to Canadian readers but don't speak for other countries
 Borg> where it may or may not be against the law. I know it is technically
 Borg> impossible but, at least, that's the reason it is _not_ "perfectly
 Borg> in order" as you are saying.

The message (and this whole thread) is crossposted to a whole bunch of
Canadian (and other) regional hierarchies.

Regional hierarchies are allowed more freedom in cancelling posts than
is the case for the big-8 and alt.*. Many regional hierarchies have
rules against excessive cross-regional posting, for example. This
applies *even if the article is crossposted to a big-8 or alt group*;
in other words a crossposted article must conform to the rules of *all*
hierarchies it is posted in, and is cancellable if it violates any of
them.

The extent to which these policies are formalised and the way they are
implemented varies considerably between regions. However, any
discussion of the issue is not really relevent to
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet, and should probably be kept to the
relevent *.config groups. At the end of the day, policy in regional
hierarchies is set solely by the newsadmins operating within that
region, and if you have a complain, you should take it up with them.
(This applies even if the hierarchy is distributed outside the region
which it serves.)

In the big-8 and alt.*, illegality is *not* in itself grounds for
cancellation.

-- 
Andrew.