From: Alan J Rosenthal (flaps@dgp.toronto.edu)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 16:38:47 CDT
>... With "Supersedes" there
>is a significant risk the instruction won't be acted upon.
Furthermore, with supersedes, "not acting upon the instruction" may very
well constitute dropping the message. So your faq won't be posted on that
news server. This is why I stopped using supersedes. I do use expires,
and cancel messages when appropriate, because the worst they do is do nothing.
[Tom Neff]
>This has all become a bit moot because the biggest extant repository and
>interface for Usenet - Google Groups - faithfully records all Expires: and
>Supersedes: headers and will display them upon demand (View Original
>Format), but apparently doesn't obey them at all.
What kind of obedience of these headers would you expect from dejagoogle?
Dejagoogle is _intended_ to provide an historical view of usenet news.
This is different from the "today's headlines" typical news server, in
which cancels and supersedeses still have a possible meaning (even if they
may be discarded to reduce abuse).
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