[net.news] New Cancellation Protocol?

rjk (02/27/83)

I have seen some attempts at article cancellation lately that don't
appear to conform to 2.9 B news.  Specifically, they appear a few
times in net.jokes as opposed to a "ctl" group.  The subject line
says:  cancel mcnc.1543  and the text says:
Control: cancel mcnc.1543

Is this a user attempting to do this or is there a new control
protocol starting up?
                                                       Randy King
                                                       ...we13!rjk

alb (02/27/83)

I too have seen the things that Randy points out.  My guess is that
one person mistakenly did it and then other people who knew no better
followed suit.  That is of course not the way to cancel a message.
If you want to cancel an article you submitted, just say 'c' to readnews.

mark (02/28/83)

I see these too, and they always came through duke.  Seems there is
some bug at or near Duke that puts the Control: header into the
body of the message instead of the header.  Apparently it's hard
to track this one down, they know about it.