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- From: Philip Stokes <phil@stokes.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What's this deleted messy stuff??
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 09:00:36 GMT
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- Paul Hamer (paul.hamer@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- > What the F*CK is with all those 'cmsg cancel' messages, during the last
- > two weeks or so I keep getting messages with 'cmsg cancel' as subject line.
- > THe message then containes nothing more then a lot of routing stuff and the
- > text: deleted
- >
- > At least 40% of all messys in this area are deleted like this, what is that??
- > Who deletes them?
-
- They are control messages, cancelling a previously posted article.
- Either the sender deletes the articles for some reason best known to him,
- or they are spams that have been intercepted. A proper news getting client
- should not be downloading control messages.
-
- Phil
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