From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 14 1998 - 09:50:27 CDT
In <19980713130317.42364@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> writes:
>On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 11:50:18AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> If the original article contains no cancel lock, then you accept _any_
>> cancel for it (unless your site policy is to accept no cancels at all,
>> which many currently do).
>>
>> If the article contains a cancel lock, then you MUST NOT accept a cancel
>> without a matching unlocking key.
>Then my question still stands. Until most sites are denying all cancels
>on articles that contain no locks, they will be allowing any cancel on
>articles that contain no locks.
Yeah! You got it in one! That is where we are now, and it will steeadily
evolve into what we want it to be.
>So if you are an injector, and an article comes in from a user with no lock,
>the question of whether to add a lock is complex.
No. It is trivial. You add nothing.
>If you do, you will be able to cancel, but the user will not be able to at
>sites that check, nor will anybody else.
Which is why you don't.
>If you don't, you, and the user, can still cancel except at sites that
>refuse cancels for unlocked articles.
So? There will not be many such sites until the newer software is widely
deployed. In fact, I don't see why there should ever be such sites since,
when the software IS widely deployed, there will be very few such cancels.
A seamless transition from the old to the new, in fact.
>Anyway, while I accept the justification of user simplicity on the
>user-generated cancel, I don't buy it for site generated cancels.
>Sites should not alter articles or locks. They should just get a
>certificate for the 3rd party cancel system allowing them to cancel
>any article for which they are the injecting site in the path, or the
>site in the message-id They should use that key to issue any cancel of an
>article from their site.
Yes, but only if a world-widely-recognised system for granting such
specific authorities exists. In the meantime, TINC.
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