As another data point, same here. My university no longer runs cancels
because they were bringing the news server to its knees. They now do
NoCeM on spool, and the newsgroups certainly don't seem more littered
now -- possibly even less, but I could be reading the wrong groups.
This is obviously not something that is particularly a FAQ problem,
but the FAQs are perhaps in a special position because on one hand
they'd be more important to resurrect, but OTOH they tend to be larger
than other posts, so duplicates should be a serious concern. And as
long as the rogue canceller is targetting FAQ:s, I'd think it would
make sense to keep this discussion here on this list. Perhaps we could
agree to direct followups somewhere else, though?
Anyhow, reusing the same Message-Id:s is not a good idea, if I
understand how cancels work. Perhaps Dave could simply add a
Supersedes: header to the reposts?
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