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Re[2]: Canceling multiple newsgroup postings

Joseph N.
Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:06:57 -0700

>>>Cancel basically means "revoke", that you will practically remove
>>>the post from *all* servers on the Internet, for *everybody*.

>>Of course I didn't revoke any postings.  And, as you said, it is
>>highly doubtful that I could have revoked any postings, certainly not
>>beyond my Usenet provider.  In any event, I didn't.

> What makes you think that? Did you use the "Cancel Message" command in 
> Mailnews or not?
> Please answer my question and tell me at which newsgroup and server you
> did that and which preferably timespan of posts you "canceled".
> And if you managed to cancel posts at your provider's server, you most
> likely did cancel them at pretty much the whole usenet. Unless I am 
> missing something.

What you are missing is that I already said I did not.  I didn't say I
didn't know whether I had or not.  I said (twice) that I didn't.

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JN