Test delete

William Hamblen wrote:

It is best to behave as if delete never works and be sure you want
the whole world to read your article.
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Wise words indeed! :-)
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Chris.B

Ralph Hertle wrote:
Bob May wrote:

You can't delete something posted to the newsgroups!
Your post got sent ot a whole bunch of different places which would make
that job rather difficult in the first place and the second is that the
philosopy of the newsgroups is that you don't delete a post.

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Bob:

The original poster only may delete his/her own posts.

Members who post their own replies may only delete their own replies.

Those who cross post must open their own posts at the other Usenet
newsgroups and delete from that news group.

Mirror sites may not automatically respond and make a deletion that
corresponds to the deletion of the original Usenet news group message.
Google is a mirror site that carries and archives the content from
Usenet news groups. I don't know their current practice on deletions.

You must act within a certain specified time to delete (a matter of
hours), and deletions are not possible after that.

Simply select your post and hit delete in either of several ways.
Accept the command as required on two or so panels, and the post will
disappear from the display.

Ralph Hertle
I'm sorry but I don't understand the problem
Did you post something that was not meant to be posted?
Apologise and leave it at that.
Was it embrrassing? Then go red and apologise!
Was it incorrect? Then correct the mistake and move on!!

Accept neswgroups as a dinner party - Say something wrong and everyone
hears it! Correct it and move on!

Pass wind!!
Go red, apologise - and move on

Now - about astronomy??????

Regards
Phil

The original poster only may delete his/her own posts.

Members who post their own replies may only delete their own replies.

Not true. Notice the "test" msgs are gone? Hmmm. If the original author
didn't remove them, who did? If you wish to remove ANYONE'S msg, use an
older version of Netscape, probably any one before 4.78 and configure
the "Identity" in your preference menu exactly as the poster whose post
you wish to cancel has his. Same name, email, organization, etc... and
cancel away. It works great to get rid of spam postings to NG's, at
least some of them, not all posts can be so easily cancelled.

The original poster only may delete his/her own posts.

Members who post their own replies may only delete their own replies.

Not true. Notice the "test" msgs are gone? Hmmm. If the original author
didn't remove them, who did? If you wish to remove ANYONE'S msg, use an
older version of Netscape, probably any one before 4.8 and configure
the "Identity" in your preference menu exactly as the poster whose post
you wish to cancel has his. Same name, email, organization, etc... and
cancel away. It works great to get rid of spam postings to NG's, at
least some of them, not all posts can be so easily cancelled.

Not true. Notice the "test" msgs are gone? Hmmm. If the original author
didn't remove them, who did?


They're not gone in my newsreader.

-Florian

Phil:

I was simply offering gratuitous information for the original and other
posters who were obviously having difficulty deleting a post.



Phil Hawkins wrote:

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I'm sorry but I don't understand the problem


Not true.


Did you post something that was not meant to be posted?
Apologise and leave it at that.
Was it embrrassing? Then go red and apologise!
Was it incorrect? Then correct the mistake and move on!!

Accept neswgroups as a dinner party - Say something wrong and everyone
hears it! Correct it and move on!

Pass wind!!
Go red, apologise - and move on

Now - about astronomy??????

Regards
Phil


What a discourteous reply.

All of that is not true and you obviously haven't read the thread.

A number of posters have added appropriate technical suggestions, and that
should be enough. The purpose of the exchange was to enable people to
delete inadvertent or test messages after they had been posted. The
suggestions regarding the public nature of the Usenet and other email
systems were right on.

Ralph Hertle