On 21/04/12 23:13, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 21/04/12 22:00, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hello,
It seems that I can't delete/cancel my own posts with thunderbird (11.0, openSUSE 12.1) in newsgroups, when I can do with pan. If I remember correctly, posts are not deleted on the servers. Just
On 2012-04-21 10:18, jdd wrote: they are not displayed on your machine. Yes, I think so too - once your post is out, it's out, although I think there is an option to supercede it. If I recall correctly, back in the early 1990s, when newsgroups were very active and the software had the ability to do so, one could actually delete a message and it would even get deleted from the recipient's computer PROVIDED that s/he had not saved it (as a backup for example). I think there is a Cancel/Rescind Message option in NNTP, but I don't believe very many news-servers support(ed) it.
You may be right but remember that I (at least) am talking about something which was in place some 20+years ago when AARNet was "all the rage". And I was using a BBS software which was ahead of its time - not popular but ahead of its time. And things have changed somewhat in the intervening period. I am still subscribed to a few newsgroups and just checked for new messages - and after about 7 months of not downloading posts in these newsgroups I got 6 messages in all :-) . Quite a different story to what used to happen 20 years ago :-) . BC -- There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org