Females in the community.

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 17:55:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> FWIW I like to post and just see it there. On the rare 
> occasions I make a mistake that could make my post 
> misunderstood I cancel the message within seconds and repost it 
> with the fix. (BTW would be nice to have the ability to cancel 
> a message from the Web interface.) If we allow post editing we 
> should allow viewing the history. Generally it's not something 
> I've been missing. -- Andrei

NNTP cancellation is something I've thought about. It has issues:

1. There is no authentication and restrictions on what you can 
cancel. The forum would need to implement its own (e.g. by 
inserting a digest into a header that can only be validated 
through a secret cookie). I'm also worried that by exposing this 
feature, I'll bring more attention to its existence, which will 
increase the likelihood of its abuse - and even detecting the 
abuse may not be easy.

2. It does not propagate. If an NNTP client will cancel a 
message, it will still be visible on the forum. DFeed needs to 
request the full message list from the server to know which 
messages are gone (it does this every few days or so). And, of 
course, mailing list users will get it anyway, and it will also 
be stored on the mailing list archives browsable from the web.