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To those who watch control.cancel:

Perhaps one of my newsservers did send out some special "short cancel messages"
to the Use net which are bound to be used only locally on my site.

Example:

> Newsgroups: control.cancel
> From: mainfeed@winews.net
> Subject: cancel <FR8f4.56638$_E6.441928@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>
> Date: 14 Jan 2000 13:59:17 +0100
> Lines: 2
> Message-ID: <cancel-000001@mainfeed.winews.net>
> Control: cancel <FR8f4.56638$_E6.441928@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>
> References: <FR8f4.56638$_E6.441928@news1.rdc1.bc.home.com>
> 
> Usenet cancel forward - local message available
> (Sent out with MyNews from mainfeed.winews.net)

There was an earlier cancel-message in "control.cancel" which canceled the
message from  ...bc.home.com
(It was not my idea to cancel this message).
This is just a _second_ attempt to cancel.

I'm not sure if any of these 260 cancel-messages every made it up to the net.
But if you find one (by accident), then please don't worry:

mainfeed.winews.net  is NOT a new cancelbot, but an experimental server.
And there will be _no_ more messages in control.cancel again, because these
messages are now distributed only in the local group "mynews.cancel.usenet"
which is not available anywhere.

This accident happened during programming (sigh) - and I want to apologize for
this before someone believes it is necessary to write flames or Emails:
NOTHING happened. Perhaps just a few messages were canceled twice.

Thanks for reading - and please excuse the inconvenience.


For those who are curious:
I am running a project which allows to obtain absolutely all cancel-messages in
a short form and extract cancel-messages by newsgroup.
It will be possible to obtain all cancel-messages hourly in a few files in a
special group from special servers. This reduces the bandwidth for downloading
all cancel-messages (just the message-ids are transmitted - sorted by cancelbot)
and realizes a much better distribution for control.cancel - even to badly
connected servers........
But this is actually just an experimental project.


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Crossposted to NANA.misc, NANA.usenet, control.cancel
F'up set to NANA.misc

Juergen Helbing, [The Archiver]
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Admin, Moderator, Programmer (<sigh>)