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Article #64Re: Canceling other people's postings
From: Catherine Anne Foulston
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:30
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:30
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In article <ByuEHv.Hn7.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes: >[2] You run an anonymous contact service and one of its users asks you >to cancel a posting. (This has happened to me.) I'd count that as the someone canceling his own post. What's the difference if the user's desire for cancellation is acted upon by software or by another human? I do agree there are good reasons for cancelling other people's posts. Cathy -- Cathy Foulston + Rice University + Network & Systems Support + cathyf@rice.edu Why you should recycle bytes: "Believe it or not, most deleted bytes currently find their way straight into the Internet refuse stream, often to turn up in postings to Usenet, or worse, OSI standards documents!" -- Peter Deutsch
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Newsgroups: news.admin.policy Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!cathyf From: cathyf@is.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) Subject: Re: Canceling other people's postings Message-ID: <Bz4Byp.63u@rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University References: <1992Dec4.211934.8997@pica.army.mil> <BytKE2.MGw@mtholyoke.edu> <ByuEHv.Hn7.2@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:30:25 GMT Lines: 16