Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin
From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: "cancelled from rn" postings?
Message-ID: <5518@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 16:32:28 EST
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5518
Posted: Tue Oct 30 16:32:28 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 31-Oct-84 06:31:27 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab
Lines: 32

I have been seeing more and more of the following sort of posting:

>  From steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Thu Oct 25 09:40:08 1984
>  Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA
>  Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP
>  Path: brl-tgr!seismo!mcvax!steven
>  From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
>  Newsgroups: net.politics
>  Subject: Re: Re: Re: gunpoint
>  Message-ID: <6118@mcvax.UUCP>
>  Date: 25 Oct 84 13:40:08 GMT
>  Date-Received: 25 Oct 84 11:40:21 GMT
>  References: <1717@inmet.UUCP> <2732@ucbcad.UUCP> <188@godot.UUCP> <180@westcsr.UUCP>
>  Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
>  Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
>  Lines: 14
>  
>  <6118@mcvax.UUCP> cancelled from rn.
>  

Note the "Lines:" field has a number that disagrees with the actual contents
(just that one "cancelled from rn" line). I thought that "cancel" messages
were supposed to delete the entire item so that it isn't there any more.
Why have a posting remain with this strange "cancelled from rn" message?
What good does that do anyone?

(Or is this NOT the result of a "c" cancel command, but the fruit of some
other strangeness?)

Will Martin

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