Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/24/08 21:27

"nobody special" wrote ...
> "Richard Crowley" wrote:
>> "ColinK" wrote ...
>>
>> > Thanks for the suggestions - I will forward to my brother.
>>
>> > PS - I am hoping to delete the original posting - I used the wrong
>> > email address.
>>
>> There is no practical way to delete postings on Usenet.
>> Even if you could get Google to remove it from their
>> archives, it has also gone out to literally thousands of
>> independent NNTP servers around the planet.
>
> Well, you can add the code to each new post that makes
> it non-archiveable,

But then NNTP servers are not compelled to honor that
x-noarchive tag, either. There are likely many servers
that ignore that tag. You can't un-ring the bell.

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