Re: canceling a message you sent

From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.invalid)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:36:32 -0700

If the server honors cancel requests, you may have to reset the newsgroup to
see that it is no longer available since you have a copy in your local copy
of the newsgroup. Also, if it has been archived on google, the cancel is
meaningless since it remains on google for a long, long time. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
Please reply only to newsgroup.
"Me" <seendtoome@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:e94ZnmtJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>    When I try to cancel the message I sent for it's oldness the server
> receives my request but it does not delete the message. I ask it because 
> the
> some news servers simply reject requested if they are programmed not to
> allow this option. Is it allowed to cancel the message you sent from the
> groups at news.microsoft.com?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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