From: John Moreno (phenix@interpath.com)
Date: Sun Jul 19 1998 - 02:09:59 CDT
Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 02:28:56AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > You seem to be assuming that implementation of cancel locks means that
> > people will turn off all unlocked cancels. So far as I know, that's never
> > been the proposal, and that's certainly not what I'm claiming will happen.
>
> Yes, that's exactly what people have been proposing. It's certainly the
> eventual plan, but some people want to do it right away.
I don't think that's the eventual plan at all - I think unsigned cancels
should be accepted unless the article in question is locked. Sites
which currently don't accept cancel I believe would move back to this if
there were a way for people who were actually having trouble to keep it
from happening, in the meantime they do this as a intermediate step.
-- John Moreno