Once upon a time John M. Brown shaped the electrons to say...

Wouldn't it be nice if people actually quoted things correctly....

Quoting from his FAQ as posted on inet-access.

" THIS CANCEL ADVISORY SYSTEM IS OPT-IN; THE CANCELS WILL *NOT* BE GENERALLY INJECTED BACK INTO THE USENET NEWS STREAM. "

Yeah - and I have a bridge I'm selling. Have you been reading Karl's rants on this subject? He expects that the people who sign up for this service will control leakage. Sure, and pigs will fly. We have see many times that sites do NOT control leakage of local groups, clarinews feeds, bofh.*, etc. Do you honestly believe, for a second, that these cancels will NOT find their way back into the general stream? I sure as hell don't. It is a BROKEN implementation - can so far on inet-access Karl has done his usual job of refusing to listen to anyone other than himself when they have tried to suggest other means of distributing this to make it TRULY OPT-IN. And not OPT-IN - in Utopia only, and OPT-OUT in the real world. If he pushes ahead with this system as he has described it to date, it would be a very bad thing. -MZ -- <URL:mailto:megazone@megazone.org> Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me.. Join ISP/C Internet Service Providers' Consortium <URL:http://www.ispc.org/> "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 781-788-0130 <URL:http://www.megazone.org/> <URL:http://www.gweep.net/> Hail Discordia!