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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 Mar 1999.
Re: Sorry for the FAQ posting

Re: Sorry for the FAQ posting

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> For the FAQ problem, a more appropriate solution might be to use the
> Supersedes header, as in:
> 
> Message-Id: <a.a...@my.host.name>
> Supersedes: <a.a...@my.host.name>
> 

Some ISP's are starting to set their news servers to refuse supersedes.
There were some 'attacks' on news groups that combined a supersede with
another control header that made all the news servers that received the
new version of the message send e-mail to the original poster of the
message.

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