Cancelling a Message

  • Thread starter Thread starter Scott
  • Start date Start date
S

Scott

I find that when I cancel a message I've posted on a newsgroup, it
disappears from the group. However, the message is still visible
when viewing the newsgroup from another computer. How
does one completely cancel a message that they're written?

Thanks!
Scott
 
In
Scott said:
I find that when I cancel a message I've posted on a newsgroup,
it
disappears from the group. However, the message is still
visible
when viewing the newsgroup from another computer. How
does one completely cancel a message that they're written?
Click to expand...


In general, you can't, unless you do it almost immediately after
posting. Newsgroup messages are quickly propagated to many
different servers all over the world. Even if you cancel a
message on the server you posted it to (and that's all you can
ever do), it will remain on lots of other servers, not to mention
places like Googlegroups.
 
I think you have to be quick. You must cancel before it propagates to the
other servers. It also helps to connect directly to the Microsoft NNTP
servers news.microsoft.com

--

Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
At last report, you can't cancel a message on the MS servers.
--
===
Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
FrontPage Support:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/

About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
===
|I think you have to be quick. You must cancel before it propagates to the
| other servers. It also helps to connect directly to the Microsoft NNTP
| servers news.microsoft.com
|
| --
|
| Regards,
|
| Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
| Microsoft Certified Professional
| Microsoft MVP [Windows]
| http://www.microsoft.com/protect
|
| "Scott" wrote:
| >I find that when I cancel a message I've posted on a newsgroup, it
| > disappears from the group. However, the message is still visible
| > when viewing the newsgroup from another computer. How
| > does one completely cancel a message that they're written?
| >
| > Thanks!
| > Scott
| >
|
|
 
Hi Tom,

You should be able to cancel your own, I know I have and JE has stated that
this function should work for those connecting directly through the msnews
server.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Back
Top