Proposed patch: cancel channel

Matus "fantomas" Uhlar uhlar at fantomas.sk
Wed Apr 12 11:06:30 UTC 2000


-> > The idea is that for sending local cancels in bulk, the NNTP
-> > (unix-domain) socket is used. The client connects, sends the new command
-> > MODE CANCEL, waits for response (new code 284) and after that it simply
-> > sends all Message-IDs it wants to be cancelled. For each one it gets a
-> > response code 289 for success and 484 for failure. Other than the
-> > command protocol, this works exactly like "ctlinnd cancel".  On a TCP/IP
-> > socket, the MODE CANCEL command is refused, so only locally installed
-> > programs under the news UID can use it.

can't this be done already by connecting innd socket ?

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