From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 03:56:14 CST
In <200003091908.OAA10911@darkstar.prodigy.com> davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) writes:
>That's just the kind of abuse I would like to prevent! We have cancel
>and supercedes now, you propose to replace something you posted with
>something else for every article? An irresponsible poster would retract
>on the fly every time something was challenged, the "I didn't say that,
>go pull the article and see" trick.
Doing that kind of replacement was one of the prime reasons for inventing
Replaces in the first place. Where were you when those discussions were
taking place?
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