From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Tue Jul 28 1998 - 20:09:34 CDT
On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 10:30:53AM +1000, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ralph Babel wrote:
>
> > David Formosa wrote:
> >
> > > Due to this I add !example.com! to the path to prevent
> > > my post from entering there system. Now I have given
> > > them the "right" to cancel my artical.
> >
> > Of course you have. Anyone using somebody else's identifier
> > without permission is giving the owner of that identifier
> > the right to cancel their article.
>
> Next thing that your going to tell me is the presence of a site's
> identifier in the subject line would make it cancelable. Indeed what
> happens if I use "cyberspam" as my uucp name? Do I get the right to
> cancel all the spam cancels? What about the newsgroup's header?
No, I mean if you make your article appear to come from a site, I think
most people would agree that site should have the power to cancel it rather
than take the shit for it.
On USENET, "come from a site" means having the site name in the domain
of the from, approved or sender, or the injection point, or at the end
of the message-id. (The end of message-id is just for efficiency,
injection point is probably enough.)
Most people here are advocating the injection point add 30 bytes to the
article to declare its cancel privileges. I don't think any would object
to having the ability to cancel if you are the injection site listed
in the path line.