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Re: Use of message disposition notification

"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> Wed, 15 April 2009 16:13 UTC

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In <5BD46A76620B4AAAB7267B8C2BD06547@Iulius> Julien ÉLIE <julien@trigofacile.com> writes:

>Hi Charles,

>> Cancel-Lock is not formally defined anywhere

>Yet, this draft can be a good starting point:
>    http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt


>> hence I know of no news-server that ever looks at it

>news.individual.net does not honour cancels and supersedes
>if there is no valid Cancel-Key: header.
>    http://www.individual.net/faq.php#1.12
>    http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.usenet.news-server-comparison/msg/7e6d4792819ad90f


Ah! I am a NIN customer, but they never told me about it :-( .

But on looking at the FAQs that I regularly post, I see that they have
been adding Cancel-Locks and Cancel-Keys to them, and they seem to have
worked.

Is that draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt still a correct description
of the algorithm as it is now implemented?

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