Some articles received by RumorMill contain information that news servers use to maintain or convey directives between servers. Such articles contain headers such as Control:, Also-Control:, or Supersedes:. RumorMill is capable of interpreting some of these directives, particularly those that will add or remove groups, supersede older messages, and cancel messages (SPAM or otherwise). Depending upon various preference settings, RumorMill may not take immediate action on the directives when they first arrive. The Execute Deferred Messages command will cause RumorMill to process the directives and, in some cases, present the articles to the user and ask whether the directive should be performed, deferred, or discarded.
Possible actions for deferred control articles
Button | Description |
Execute | Perform the function described in the article shown. |
Defer | Perform no action at this time, but retain the article. |
Forget | Peform no action on this article and do not consider the article again. |
Stop | Discontinue processing deferred articles. |