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From: pcf@galadriel.bt.co.uk (Pete French)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How do you "kill" a message in uucp?
Message-ID: <312@galadriel.bt.co.uk>
Date: 8 Aug 89 10:07:55 GMT
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From article <119830@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, by argv%eureka@Sun.COM (Dan Heller):
> 
> I opted for the last one.  Perhaps it would be nice to set up an automation
> script that can do this automatically (of course, authentication would be
> highly desired :-).  Just email to "uukill@offending.site" and the subject
> would contain the job to kill..  just an idea.
> 

How would you specify the message that you wanted to kill ? And if you
could then how would you stop other people blatting your outgoing mail ?
The best place to kill mail is surely at its point of origin ... I am not
sure that any other way is practical.

If anoyone here reads comp.unix.wizards they may have seen the "Tao of
programming" saga. Somebody posted a transcript of a (C) book to the net !
There should be some method of preventing things like that spreading, but
sadly to send out the "kill this uucp file" message requires it to overtake the
original posting/mail which in a lot of cases will not happed. The end result is
that anything which is posted will reach a large number of people despite the
best efforts of the postmasters.

-Pete French.

Inmcedentally - why should you have a termcap for a C64 ?