Re: Is it legal to request old friends

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From: ? the platypus {aka David Formos...
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:00

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In <5qu97k$364$2@gruvel.une.edu.au> dbromage@metz.une.edu.au (David Bromage) writes:

>Dave Nagle (dnagle@wt.com.au) wrote:

[...]

>>Nothing. That's why first class news servers ignore cancel 
>>messages.

>That is most definately wrong. First class news servers DO accept cancels.
>This removes the spam from the filespace allocated to news,

Some first class servers do not accept cancels and use NoCeMs instead.
This both stops the peaple canceling your posts and stops the spam.

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From: ? the platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Is it legal to request old friends
Date: 1997/07/22
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