Proposed patch: cancel channel

[Bill Davidsen]

On 13 May 2000, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Olaf Titz <olaf at bigred.inka.de> writes:

> > 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.

Wouldn't be a bad thing for ctlinnd as well, something like:
  ctlinnd cancelmode < bad-id.file

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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