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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> On the other hand, as cancel locks isn't something that is commonly
> supported out there, maybe Gnus shouldn't worry about it by default?
> On the third hand, if this stuff just happens in the background, the
> user probably wouldn't care, and it might be nice to have cancel locks
> in all Gnus posts.

Yes, it's very practical to finally be able to cancel articles from
Gnus without having to use some bogus sender-header. But since
cancel-locks won't give you much protection anyway, maybe the default
password could be something really simple? Would it hurt to just use
the username@systemname as password? Yes anyone can fake it, but
anyone can cancel your articles whether they know the password or not, 
so it doesn't really matter. 


Bjørn
-- 
You sound like a real wally.