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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: How to deal with net.general
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:40:50 EDT
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[it was suggest that *anybody* be allowed to cancel net.general articles]

> I don't think this would be appropriate for any user to do.  It seems that
> some users would enjoy cancelling articles just for the fun of it.

	If you added a "Cancel-Votes:" header (just what we need, more
per-article overhead, right?), everytime somebody tried to cancel the
article, you just bump up the vote count; when it reaches a threshold, you
blow the article away all-together.  Of course, this only works for tracing
an article along a single path, so isn't much use with the current Usenet
topology and it diffusion model of message passing.  Just a random thought;
fell free to forget I mentioned it.
-- 
Roy Smith 
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016