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[greg andruk]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Mark Hittinger <bugs at pu.net> writes:

>>It would be nice during the day to have cancels flip such a "deleted"
>>bit in the overview record.

> This is the problem.  Overview is indexed by newsgroup and article number.
> How do you get that for the message that was cancelled?

Pull cancel message processing out of and feed into the mode cancel 
stuff, and there's suddenly lots of extra time for fetching Xrefs and 
stuff like that.  You get a place to plug in future cancel auth schemes 
for free.