Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!timeinc!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.news.b,net.news.group Subject: Re: How to deal with net.general Message-ID: <403@phri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 14:40:50 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.403 Posted: Wed Aug 14 14:40:50 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:05:16 EDT References: <5204@elsie.UUCP> <641@cyb-eng.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 16 Xref: linus net.news.b:844 net.news.group:2818 [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 SmithSystem Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016