Re: What are canlocks?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:00:00AM +0100, Urs Jan=DFen wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:01:02PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > I'm getting a message from tin when I post saying "Can't open
> > .cancelsecret", this apparently relates to canlocks.
> >=20
> > What is all this about?
>=20
> A mechanism to prevent forged cancels, but they must also be
> implemented on the servers side (wich is rarely the case)
> to protect the users articles.
>=20
> http://www.karlsruhe.org/rfc/draft-ietf-usefor-cancel-lock-01.txt
>=20
OK, thanks.  So do I need to worry about the error message or is it just
telling me I haven't got any cancel locks in use?  If I create the
missing file (with nothing in it) will the error disappear?

--=20
Chris Green