Re: Further on post deletion

Big Bill wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:07:42 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>Big Bill wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:24:23 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>John Bokma wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Big Bill <kruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Given that I've archived the posts, If I reply to them by just tacking
>>>>>> a line or two on the end of each, they then become incorporated into
>>>>>> my posts so I woud imagine that only I myself could delete them then.
>>>>>> Sound reasonable?
>>>>>
>>>>> If you mean: can I delete my own posts, even if I quote 99% of someone
>>>>> else: yes. The original post can only be deleted by the author though :-)
>>>>
>>>>I think he means it vice versa: if I delete my post, I can only delete
>>>>/my/ post. Not the reply to it by someone else who thought it was a
>>>>good idea to quote my entire message. Just like x-no-archive:yes
>>>>doesn't help much if someone quotes you in full without using that
>>>>header.
>>>
>>> How about if they quote you in full and they do use that header? Which
>>> is what I may have done...
>>
>>Then it'll be deleted after 6 or 7 days though, won't it :-)
>
> From Google Groups, great archivers of usenet? If that were the case,
> why would they be going back and deleting posts anyway?

I don't think I'm following anymore...

Google honours the x-no-archive header, that's all.

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