Ben Bucksch
Mon, 09 Sep 2002 09:15:05 -0700
Joseph N. wrote: >What is the point of being able to cancel only one newsgroup posting >at a time? > >I have marked all messages read, but they remain in the message base. >When I close and reopen the program, they are still there. They cannot >be deleted, unless I go one-by-one for hundreds and hundreds of them. > > AAAARRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!! Cancel does not just delete the post from your message store. Cancel basically means "revoke", that you will practically remove the post from *all* servers on the Internet, for *everybody*. In other words, if that happened what I think it did, you screwed up big time. You deleted lots of posts from other people. Removing just one post of somebody else is already considered an extremely hostile action. I have a hard time to believe that that really happened. First, Mozilla/Beonex should warn you about the effect of what you are about to do. (I didn't have a chance to check it.) Second, the news server should probably disallow cancelling of other people's posts (compare Froms), Netscape's servers do that. Please confirm, if you really did cancel the posts. Maybe tell me the server, newsgroup and posts you canceled. If you want to control the local message store, go into the account prefs under "Offline and Disk Space". You will there find options like "Keep only unread messages". You should really learn to look around in the user interface and possibly search on the internet.