Re: Handling SPAM posts

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On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:14:11 -0700, Ben Voigt [C++ MVP] <rbv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Do MVPs have cancel rights here?

No. Or at least I don't know how to do it.

I can't imagine that Microsoft would grant message cancel privileges to the MVPs. MVPs don't have any other moderator-like authority. It's an award, not an admin position.

That said, even if MVPs did have the authority to cancel posts, at best Microsoft would only be able to grant that authority on the msnews.microsoft.com server (i.e. Microsoft's own NNTP server). Since the posts are distributed globally, removing the posts from Microsoft's server would have relatively little benefit. Even allowing an NNTP cancel would have little effect, since most ISPs have disabled post canceling due to the lack of any security/authentication for the operation.

Pete
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