On 07/20/2011 10:29 AM, Henry Vermaak wrote: > > How can you have accountable discussions when people can delete their > posts?
Viewing the discussion as a tree structure; replies to a specific deleted post will simply move up one level. Some NNTP servers and clients also support the "replace post" command, where a later post can replace an existing post (even better for fixing spelling mistakes). Replies to the original post will stay as is. For a true history of message threads, there are websites like Gmane and Google Groups that archive posts without deleting anything. But as far as I know, a group admin can also ask to have a specific message removed from the archive (applies both to Gmane and Google Groups). User's don't normally delete their messages, but at least the option is there (to prevent embarrassment, or due to some heated discussion with later regret etc.). > Is there a time limit for doing such things? There is no time limit as far as I know, though I'm not 100% sure. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
