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* Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> For cancel locks to serve any purpose, doesn't the password need to be
> non-guessable?  

Duh.

> I agree there aren't any servers out there today that requires cancel
> locks, 

If you tell me how, news://my.gnus.org/gnu.emacs.gnus will require
them. I presume so would news://gnus.org/. So there.

> but if clients start to support it, maybe they change.  

Why should they? It's a server thing. Like, period and stuff.