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In article <1640@sparko.gwu.edu> se208104@seas.gwu.edu (William Lai) writes:

> Is there a way to KILL the superceded article upon receipt of the
> new one?  I believe that one of the header lines is "supercede
> such-and-such".  Maybe that could be used?

What news system?  C News, as of the 10 Jan 90 patch, now will handle
the Supercedes: header directly in relaynews.  The original article is
cancelled.  Prior to this you had to use $NEWSBIN/expire/superkludge
to get the supercedes header to work, and then it only did it in the
groups named on the command line.  Now superceding is done a little
bit more efficiently at the cost of a slightly less efficient
relaynews.

As far as I know, which in this case is only memories of when we were
a B News site, supercedes are not done by B 2.11 but they might be in
the most recently releases.  (If so, someone who hopefully point that
out -- if not, then you could use a modified superkludge.)  The
possibility that Supercedes: is not done by B News is somewhat
corroborated by the fact that the header is not mentioned in Section 2
of RFC 1036.

One further note on superkludge: it only removes the file of the
superceded article.  References to the file in lib/history* will
remain until the article expires normally.

I don't know how other news systems deal with Supercedes:.

Dave
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