* Re: cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> [not found] <m27l9bj1rq.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> @ 2000-08-20 20:26 ` Harry Putnam 2000-08-20 21:01 ` Karl Kleinpaste 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Harry Putnam @ 2000-08-20 20:26 UTC (permalink / raw) Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes: > I am canceling my own article. Hey, is this supposed to happen? I posted a duplicate message from my Mail subscription, saw what I had done when it hit the server so went to quimby server to cancel the extra post. 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? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> 2000-08-20 20:26 ` cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> Harry Putnam @ 2000-08-20 21:01 ` Karl Kleinpaste 2000-08-20 21:18 ` Harry Putnam 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Karl Kleinpaste @ 2000-08-20 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw) 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> 2000-08-20 21:01 ` Karl Kleinpaste @ 2000-08-20 21:18 ` Harry Putnam 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Harry Putnam @ 2000-08-20 21:18 UTC (permalink / raw) 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2000-08-20 21:18 UTC | newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed) -- links below jump to the message on this page -- [not found] <m27l9bj1rq.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> 2000-08-20 20:26 ` cmsg cancel <m2g0o0vhqz.fsf@ognus-5.8.8-cvs.now.playing> Harry Putnam 2000-08-20 21:01 ` Karl Kleinpaste 2000-08-20 21:18 ` Harry Putnam
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