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On 17 Jan 2006 "Dave Braine" <d...@pilot.pprune.com> wrote: > Chris de Cordova wrote: > > deleted? > > How do you do that, then? > Because I do all this online at There is a mechanism to send cancel and supercede messages, but due to When you 'delete' from google, the only affect is google wont find it for you ---druck --
You do realise that google is just a viewer and archiver of news postings,
> > In article <1137434330.280799.258...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> > Dave Braine <d...@pilot.pprune.com> wrote:
> > > Which is why I deleted my post from here.
> 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.
and has absolutely no effect on actual usenet news system, in which posts are
propagated to hundreds of thousands of servers world wide.
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.
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.
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