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Does anyone own this NG? OT
If so, can posts be deleted?
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Does anyone own this NG? OT
Sat, 9 May 2009 19:25:10 -0500 from Gloria :
If so, can posts be deleted? All articles are deleted by the passage of time. How long that takes depends on which server you are connected to. Can you yourself do something to delete your article (or anyone else's) from all news servers that currently have copies? No. The great prevalence of forged cancels a few years ago caused most of the big providers to adopt a policy of ignoring cancels. It's too bad, because sometimes as soon as I've hit Send I realize I could have said something better, but there's no effective way to call it back. And of course everything is permanently archived at google. In addition, many sites that run their own forums capture all articles from certain newsgroups and, totally without permission, repost the articles to their private forums. There's nothing you can do about this either, unless you find these pirate sites *and* they're in the US *and* you're prepared to invoke the Digital Millennium copyright Act *and* either they or their hosting company cooperate with the law. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Shikata ga nai... |
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