tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/28/90)
In article <1640@sparko.gwu.edu> se208104@seas.gwu.edu (William Lai) writes: > Is there a way to KILL the superceded article upon receipt of the > new one? I believe that one of the header lines is "supercede > such-and-such". Maybe that could be used? What news system? C News, as of the 10 Jan 90 patch, now will handle the Supercedes: header directly in relaynews. The original article is cancelled. Prior to this you had to use $NEWSBIN/expire/superkludge to get the supercedes header to work, and then it only did it in the groups named on the command line. Now superceding is done a little bit more efficiently at the cost of a slightly less efficient relaynews. As far as I know, which in this case is only memories of when we were a B News site, supercedes are not done by B 2.11 but they might be in the most recently releases. (If so, someone who hopefully point that out -- if not, then you could use a modified superkludge.) The possibility that Supercedes: is not done by B News is somewhat corroborated by the fact that the header is not mentioned in Section 2 of RFC 1036. One further note on superkludge: it only removes the file of the superceded article. References to the file in lib/history* will remain until the article expires normally. I don't know how other news systems deal with Supercedes:. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "If a machine can be made so that an idiot can use it, then only an idiot will use it." -- Tadao Ichikawa
ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) (02/28/90)
From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Date: 28 Feb 90 03:13:27 GMT
As far as I know, which in this case is only memories of when we were
a B News site, supercedes are not done by B 2.11 but they might be in
the most recently releases.
The original implementation of Supersedes: was done in B News 2.11.10.
AMBAR
ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu {mit-eddie,uunet}!bloom-beacon!ambar
Rule 1: there is no such thing as too many cats.wcs) (03/04/90)
Well, first of all, you have to get the right header line - is it Supersedes: <Message-ID> (Probably correct?) or Supercedes: <Message-ID> Some of the newer versions of B News support it, and others don't. -- # Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs # Fax 949-4876. Sometimes found at Somerset 201-271-4712 # He put on the goggles, waved his data glove, and walked off into cyberspace. # Wasn't seen again for days.