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- From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Cancelled articles
- Message-ID: <3951@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 05:42:57 GMT
- References: <2AFA26BB.26077@news.service.uci.edu>
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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- In article <2AFA26BB.26077@news.service.uci.edu> ruman@meroot.eng.uci.edu (ruman) writes:
- > I would like to know if it is possible to read a cancelled article
- >without sending a control mesg cancelling the cancel. I read news via
- >NNTP. I tried telnet to the NNTP port to retrieve the cancelled
- >article, but am unable to get it. ("article number invalid", was the
- >the message i believe).
-
- Sorry, not possible. Once the cancel for the original article
- arrives, the original article is removed completely. There is
- no article to retrieve. Cancelling the cancel just removes the
- article that did the cancel, so you couldn't retrieve it either.
-
- "cancel" means destroy the article to be cancelled. Not
- "prevent the newsreader showing it to the user"..
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