Re: Further on post deletion

Big Bill wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 14:48:59 +0200, Els <els.aNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> Even when that post, in its entirety, headers and all, is quoted in
> another post?

Quoting a header with x-no-archive in it, doesn't make the headers of
that post contain it.

> I can't get the post, visible though it is here on the
> ntl server, to show up at all in GG. Maybe it just has yet to
> propagate. But it's been nearly a day.

GG only deletes it after some time, as I said, 6 or 7 days. Any
indication as to which post you mean? (it might just be sitting in my
newsreader here, so I can have a look at it)

> I may join GG myself and post the thing again, this time through GG.

Shouldn't make a difference wrt to what GG does with the header I
think.

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