To cancel someone's posts, is the "Control: cancel" header sufficient?
 

Lloyd wrote in :

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:10:23 GMT, Chris
wrote:

It's an act of tough love to cancel a no-coder's posts. They should
be practicing their CW instead of goofing off on usenet. Qrz.com
practices tough love, and so should the rest of us.

I've been lovingly cancelling Mark Morgan's posts, but not all of them
have gone away yet. I'm a little rusty on the use of cancel control
messages, but I think I've got them formatted correctly. The subject
line doesn't really have to contain "cmsg cancel" does it? I see my
messages in control.cancel, so they must be propagating around the net
properly.

A much easier way to do what you are trying is to get the HipCrime
News Agent from http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/ and to let it do the work
for you. You just put the names of posters you don't like into its
config files, and it will automatically cancel those users' posts
every time it finds new posts by them. HipCrime can also be used to
create and remove news groups, but you probably don't want to do
either of those things just yet. Leave it to the Brits to come up
with something as wonderful as HipCrime News Agent.


There's nothing special about hipCrime. It just makes doing some things a
little faster. You can do the same thing with a good telnet app.

SC