Re: [opensuse] deleting news posts in thunderbird

On 04/21/2012 03:13 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:

On 21/04/12 22:00, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2012-04-21 10:18, jdd wrote:
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
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.

the nntp server acting with the gateway to the openSUSE web forums supports it, still...that is, using TBird if i press "Delete", it will..

well, it will delete the post on the nntp server...but, if in the interim the gateway had swept the post to the http side it would remain there, even after the original was purged from the nntp server..

folks who might join the thread via nntp would not see the post, but the web crowd would.

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DD

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