Re: How does a person REMOVE their postings from a newsgroup?

[Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2006-12-30, Vanguard <vanguard.news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "MegaC" <dmegyesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:1167520305.165500.268780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I have a question.  How does a person REMOVE their postings from a
>> newsgroup?  I have some (ahem) embarrassing postings from up to 10
>> years ago that I want to remove.  It is killing my dating life as 
>> girls
>> 'google' my name and they fid these embarrassing postings?
>
>
> If you could remove your postings then you could remove postings from 
> other users and other users could remove yours.  Some NNTP servers may 
> still support cancel posts but then spoofed cancel messages can also be 
> used to cancel your posts or anyone elses.  

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Apart from which, a 'Cancel' message only works at all for articles that 
still exist on the NNTP servers - which they don't after a few months at
most.  The OP is really looking for help to remove their own posts from
the Google Groups archive, and Mike Easter has pointed them in the right
direction for that.

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