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Message from discussion Support Newsgroup Off-topic Cancelling
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:44:42 +0100
From: Robert Kaiser <ka...@kairo.at>
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Gervase Markham schrieb:
> Question 0 is whether it's ever appropriate to cancel messages. I 
> believe it is;

I agree.
And I think we also should allow removing double/triple/multi-posts, as 
we have e.g. in the SeaMonkey support newsgroup atm, where one user 
posted 5 or 6 top-level messages with almost identical text asking the 
same question. Such multi-posts should be reduced to one ideally.

Robert Kaiser