Andrew Gideon wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:18:57 -0600, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Some accept them from their own users but none accept them from other
servers so they are useless.

It's been a while since I looked at the innards of an NNTP server. If I
recall correctly, though, outbound queues store only message IDs. So if
a locally originated message is canceled before it is transmitted off-
site, the cancel will have the proper effect.

Once the message is beyond the horizon in which cancels are honored, of
course, the electrons have been wasted.

- Andrew


Well looking at Larry's message that he says he sent a cancel message
and the follow up message I think the difference was 4 minutes.