Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Mike Bristow
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00

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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:54:19 +0100, Andy 
	<andy@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <7fmvfd$b1a@bonkers.taronga.com>, Peter da Silva
><peter@taronga.com> writes
>>Because the very same network that propogated the message will propogate the
>>cancel.
>>
>>In fact, cancels generally propogate faster than the message itself, because
>>of a quirk in INN.
>
>So do they then hang around hoping that the message will turn up, or do
>they say to themselves "what a clever cancel I am - its gone already"
>and selfdestruct.. then when the message turns up later it isn't
>cancelled?

I haven't looked at the code, but I'd imagine that it adds
the message ID of the canceled article to the database of
articles not to accept when offered by your peers, then goes
and nuke it off the disk if it's there.

So to answer your question: it does neither, but the effect is as if
the former happened.


-- 
"A word to the wise: a credentials dicksize war is usually a bad idea
on the net."
	-- David Parsons in c.o.l.development.system, about coding

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From: mike@fat.dotat.at (Mike Bristow)
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/22
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