From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!alb Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: New Cancellation Protocol? Article-I.D.: alice.1542 Posted: Sat Feb 26 23:42:10 1983 Received: Sun Feb 27 03:05:17 1983 References: we13.412 I too have seen the things that Randy points out. My guess is that one person mistakenly did it and then other people who knew no better followed suit. That is of course not the way to cancel a message. If you want to cancel an article you submitted, just say 'c' to readnews.