XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: psperson1@ix.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 08:24:23 -0800, Stan Brown   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 20:56:47 +0000 (UTC), Julian Bradfield wrote:   
   >> You were replying to an article which was cancelled minutes after it   
   >> was posted (and several hours before you replied). If your usenet   
   >> provider doesn't honour authenticated cancellations, that's   
   >> unfortunate.   
   >   
   >And extremely common. Cancels are easily forged. Most Usenet   
   >providers started ignoring them quite a few years ago, back when   
   >Usenet was much more popular and forged cancels were a weapon in   
   >flamewars.   
   >   
   >The only way I know to make a cancel work is to cancel your article   
   >before your provider sends it anywhere else. This does work with   
   >news.individual.net, or at least it did last time I checked, but the   
   >window is only a few minutes.   
      
   Intriguingly, the posts I am getting from EternalSeptember have this   
   header:   
      
   Cancel-Lock: sha1:fQrZGV/sd8wZx6i7JHqgRzdJ4e4=   
      
   but whether that has anything to do with cancelling a post I have no   
   idea.   
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   "I begin to envy Petronius."   
   "I have envied him long since."   
      
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