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Rolf Aalberg

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May 16, 2013, 4:25:04 AM5/16/13
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I am asking because I am unable to find a message posted by someone
during the past 10 days or so.

Unless I have been dreaming, the msg was posted by Ray Martinez in the
thread "Ray Martinez and Pandas Thumb" and contained the words "perfect
evidence". I am 100% certain about "evidence" with "perfect" almost
certain but may theoretically be something different.

In addition, "relieved" appeared in the msg.

I therefore speculate, I find it very hard to believe my memory of this
is incorrect, but is it possible that a message may have become deleted?

I did not immediately respond to the msg but wanted to take my time to
make a proper response and by then I was unable to retrieve it.

But since sent messages are being stored on the sender's machine, maybe
Ray himself might want to solve this mystery?

Rolf

Rolf Aalberg

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May 16, 2013, 4:44:38 AM5/16/13
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It just struck me - may I have read the 'missing msg' in a different
thread? Although when I seek all msgs by Ray I haven't been able to find
it in the time frame.

Ron O

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May 16, 2013, 5:34:40 AM5/16/13
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New Google allows you to delete posts. You can ask Nyikos how to do
it. He is the only one posting to TO that has done it that I know of.

Ron Okimoto

Burkhard

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May 16, 2013, 5:42:29 AM5/16/13
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Google allows you to delete messages - but that affects of course only
google groups, if you read messages on a newsreader, you still get
posts deleted in google groups, and they are still archived by your
reader's archive
Could have another reason though.The search function for google groups
seems to have a huge time law for some reason (maybe indexing posts?),
so it may well be that even posst that were not deleted don't show up
for quite some time

Robert Carnegie

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May 16, 2013, 9:22:57 AM5/16/13
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On Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:42:29 UTC+1, Burkhard wrote:
> Could have another reason though.The search function for google groups
> seems to have a huge time law for some reason (maybe indexing posts?)

You meant a "high time luge", evidently.

And that's not to say that the incomplete, because go missing.
So that what remains or no sense.

Probably it is eventually correctly assembled all, but have you wait to.

Rolf Aalberg

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May 16, 2013, 12:10:06 PM5/16/13
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I use a newsreader - SeaMonkey.

Mike Painter

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May 16, 2013, 1:15:46 PM5/16/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013 10:25:04 +0200, Rolf Aalberg
<rolf.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I am asking because I am unable to find a message posted by someone
>during the past 10 days or so.
Essentially, at least for a fairly long time, no
The message will exist on a large number of servers for a considerable
length of time in some cases.
Forte keeps text messages for 3,300 Days.

James Beck

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May 16, 2013, 2:03:21 PM5/16/13
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On Thu, 16 May 2013 10:25:04 +0200, Rolf Aalberg
<rolf.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

"...perfect correspondence...?"

Rolf Aalberg

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May 16, 2013, 4:44:43 PM5/16/13
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Could be, except I know 'evidence' was in there somewhere.

Paul J Gans

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May 16, 2013, 7:02:08 PM5/16/13
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Once upon a time a poster could send a "cancel" message through
the internet. Some ISP's would delete the cancelled message
if the cancel came from the same computer and person who sent
the original message.

But the actual cancelling was optional.

Nowadays, nobody pays any attention to cancels, except that some,
perhaps Google, may internally cancel the message. But other
ISPs won't and so the message is still out there somewhere.

--
--- Paul J. Gans

Walter Bushell

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May 17, 2013, 9:04:49 AM5/17/13
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In article <kn3ohg$8ij$8...@reader1.panix.com>,
Paul J Gans <gan...@panix.com> wrote:

> Once upon a time a poster could send a "cancel" message through
> the internet. Some ISP's would delete the cancelled message
> if the cancel came from the same computer and person who sent
> the original message.
>
> But the actual cancelling was optional.
>
> Nowadays, nobody pays any attention to cancels, except that some,
> perhaps Google, may internally cancel the message. But other
> ISPs won't and so the message is still out there somewhere.
>
> --
> --- Paul J. Gans

panix still honors cancels which is handy for internal froups.

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me -- in the spirit of Karl and Groucho Marx

Richard Clayton

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May 17, 2013, 9:51:28 AM5/17/13
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If I recall correctly, DIG does not permit cancels. That said, Google
Groups DOES allow the original poster to delete a message. The
Mysterious Post Deleter (who totally isn't Ray) is fond of removing
posts that Ray finds embarrassing or inconvenient.

--
[The address listed is a spam trap. To reply, take off every zig.]
Richard Clayton
"I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); their names
are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." � Rudyard Kipling

jillery

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May 17, 2013, 12:06:48 PM5/17/13
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On Fri, 17 May 2013 09:51:28 -0400, Richard Clayton
<richZIG.e....@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 16-May-13 04:25, Rolf Aalberg wrote:
>> I am asking because I am unable to find a message posted by someone
>> during the past 10 days or so.
>>
>> Unless I have been dreaming, the msg was posted by Ray Martinez in the
>> thread "Ray Martinez and Pandas Thumb" and contained the words "perfect
>> evidence". I am 100% certain about "evidence" with "perfect" almost
>> certain but may theoretically be something different.
>>
>> In addition, "relieved" appeared in the msg.
>>
>> I therefore speculate, I find it very hard to believe my memory of this
>> is incorrect, but is it possible that a message may have become deleted?
>>
>> I did not immediately respond to the msg but wanted to take my time to
>> make a proper response and by then I was unable to retrieve it.
>>
>> But since sent messages are being stored on the sender's machine, maybe
>> Ray himself might want to solve this mystery?
>>
>> Rolf
>
>If I recall correctly, DIG does not permit cancels. That said, Google
>Groups DOES allow the original poster to delete a message. The
>Mysterious Post Deleter (who totally isn't Ray) is fond of removing
>posts that Ray finds embarrassing or inconvenient.


Of course, removing posts doesn't remove replies to that post. One
could seek out Ray's cancels and reply to them, for posterity's sake.

Rolf

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May 21, 2013, 4:49:37 AM5/21/13
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"Richard Clayton" <richZIG.e....@gmail.com> skrev i melding
news:kn5ce4$qo2$1...@dont-email.me...
> On 16-May-13 04:25, Rolf Aalberg wrote:
> > I am asking because I am unable to find a message posted by someone
> > during the past 10 days or so.
> >
> > Unless I have been dreaming, the msg was posted by Ray Martinez in the
> > thread "Ray Martinez and Pandas Thumb" and contained the words "perfect
> > evidence". I am 100% certain about "evidence" with "perfect" almost
> > certain but may theoretically be something different.
> >
> > In addition, "relieved" appeared in the msg.
> >
> > I therefore speculate, I find it very hard to believe my memory of this
> > is incorrect, but is it possible that a message may have become deleted?
> >
> > I did not immediately respond to the msg but wanted to take my time to
> > make a proper response and by then I was unable to retrieve it.
> >
> > But since sent messages are being stored on the sender's machine, maybe
> > Ray himself might want to solve this mystery?
> >
> > Rolf
>
> If I recall correctly, DIG does not permit cancels. That said, Google
> Groups DOES allow the original poster to delete a message. The
> Mysterious Post Deleter (who totally isn't Ray) is fond of removing
> posts that Ray finds embarrassing or inconvenient.
>

Thank you for clearing that up. Unless my memory fails me, it would have
been a rather embarassing statement even for him.

> --
> [The address listed is a spam trap. To reply, take off every zig.]
> Richard Clayton
> "I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); their names
> are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." � Rudyard Kipling
>


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