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.
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.