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 More options 17 Jan 2006, 23:24
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: druck <n...@druck.freeuk.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:24:39 GMT
Local: Tues 17 Jan 2006 23:24
Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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On 17 Jan 2006 "Dave Braine" <d...@pilot.pprune.com> wrote:

> Chris de Cordova wrote:
> > In article <1137434330.280799.258...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> >    Dave Braine <d...@pilot.pprune.com> wrote:
> > >  Which is why I deleted my post from here.

> > deleted?

> > How do you do that, then?

> Because I do all this online at
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.sys.acorn.misc?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8
>  rather than use a newsreader, which I'd never heard of until a couple
> of days ago.

You do realise that google is just a viewer and archiver of news postings,
and has absolutely no effect on actual usenet news system, in which posts are
propagated to hundreds of thousands of servers world wide.

There is a mechanism to send cancel and supercede messages, but due to
widespread abuse of the system it is almost never honoured these days, and
stands no chance deleting the message from more than a tiny fraction of
servers, never mind all the copies stored on individual users machines.

When you 'delete' from google, the only affect is google wont find it for you
any more. Its not even certain google deletes it from its internal database,
it doesn't when you deleted your email if you are foolish enough to use the
insidious gmail service, it continues to be used to profile you and anyone
who sends email to you.

---druck

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