Re: Deleting annotations with replies

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:42:52PM +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> At 14:05 16/11/02 -0500, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> >On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:18:57AM +0000, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> > >
> > > At the moment, I seem to be able to delete annotations which have replies
> > > (using Amaya). Is this an intended change or a bug?
> >
> >I thought it was always so. We had lengthly discussions about this,
> >and, in the end, it was an arbitrary choice between A's right to
> >retract what he said and B's right to be able to refer to something
> >stable.
> 
> ...
> 
> >What do you think?
> 
> 
> I think that you used to get an error "509 Protocol Vaguery" if you tried 
> to delete an annotation which had replies. But maybe I'm wrong.

yeah, that was the goal.

> I was wondering if some of the reply-related server code had changed, 
> because my development version of Annozilla seems not to be picking up 
> replies created by Amaya any more. In fact, even if I go straight to the 
> server with
> 
> http://annotest.w3.org/annotations?w3c_replyTree=annotation URI
> 
> I don't see what I expect.

I'll poke around and see what's going on. Could you give me a session-id?
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