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Started by Greg Skinner
Sun, 27 May 1984 20:14
redistribution lists
Author: Greg Skinner
Date: Sun, 27 May 1984 20:14
Date: Sun, 27 May 1984 20:14
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I often get upset when I send a message to a list such as human-nets, which occasionally has out-of-date addresses whose host machines may have crashed. I too, get messages such as ... foo at AMES-TSS: Message undeliverable for x days, will try for another y days In USENET, the user is able to "cancel" an article he posts. The cancellation is first done locally at his own site (the article is deleted from his local filesystem), then a control message is sent to all other machines to whom the poster's site talks to, instructing them to delete their received copy from their filesystems. And so on and so forth ... It would be a useful feature if at the redistribution point, a facility was enabled so that users could send a cancellation message instructing the host to dequeue the currently undeliverable messages. Greg Skinner ARPA: gds%mit-eddie@XX UUCP: ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!gds -------
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