Re: cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing>

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> > The message I'm replying to was posted by the act of me cancelling a
> > post, through no other action of mine.  Is that normal?
> 
> Well, yeah.
> 
> This is one of the few true brekadowns of the semantic similarities
> between mail and news, where the transport actually matters.  Once you
> send an email message, it's gone.  You can't cancel it or recall it or
> whatever.  Posting a cancellation of a mail-gatewayed news message
> implies, in this case, that the cancellation itself constitutes yet
> another to-be-gatewayed message.  At best, one can complain that the
> newsfeeds configuration of INN on Quimby should prevent control
> messages from passing through the gate.  Then folks who see just the
> mail side will still see both messages you posted, but they won't see
> the cancellation.

Ahh, so not a good move to try to cancel a mailed (smtp transport)
message through a news (nntp transport) gateway.  In this case the end
result was more unnecessary verbiage instead of the intended less.