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Re: DEMON FAIL TO GIVE NOTICE OF APPEAL

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From: Alan Ford
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:00
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On 20 Jun 1999 17:47:03 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>In news.admin.misc, Alan Ford <alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Make another message, and set the subject to:
>> 	cmsg cancel <message-id>
>> where <message-id> is the message id of the message you want to cancel.
>
>That will likely work on most places that honor cancels, but it's
>deprecated.  (Special tokens in the subject header are bad; too prone to
>accidents and other problems.)  The preferred method is to simply put the
>header:

Yes, I'm aware of that; the problem is that dear Mr Burridge cannot manage
the simple concept of another header :-(

So, I considered that a fairly fool-proof method.

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From: alan@whirlnet.demon.co.uk (Alan Ford)
Subject: Re: DEMON FAIL TO GIVE NOTICE OF APPEAL
Date: 1999/06/21
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