From: Charles Calvert <cbciv@...>
Date: 2009-06-13T02:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:11:40 +0200, "Michael Bruschkewitz"
<brusch4_removeunderlinesandtextbetween_@gmx.net> wrote in
<51c17$4a31ffad$5b0ec0a9$25951@news1.surfino.com>:

>
>"J�rg W Mittag" <JoergWMittag+Usenet@GoogleMail.Com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>news:szr1abyyk75g.dlg@jwmittag.my-fqdn.de...
>> One of the nice properties of NNTP (and one of the many things that
>> makes Usenet infinitely more useful than E-Mail for discussion groups)
>> is that you can delete articles. IOW: as long as you are not the first
>> person to download that article, you shouldn't actually see it.
>
>Im pretty sure it is impossible to delete third party articles on the 
>servers.

You're correct.  If you delete a post in your news client, it is
simply deleted from the local cache of headers.  It still exists on
the server and others will still see it.

>It should be even impossible to cancel an own article once somebody has 
>answered to.

This is not the case.  Any post can be canceled at any time, provided
that the server in question honors cancellations.  Most do not, due to
past abuse.

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