Christopher Jahn wrote: > And it came to pass that Chris Montgomery wrote: > >>In the Mozilla 0.9.7 news reader, how can you delete >>messages? I would like to delete individual messages or >>entire blocks of messages in newsgroups but cannot find a >>way to do this? Surely there is a way to do this, other news >>readers certainly have this capability. >> > > No, they don't - they mislabel what you are actually doing. > > You don't delete newsgroup messages - they aren't on your > computer, so you can't delete them anymore than you can delete a > web page you are viewing.
Sorry to disagree. When using an offline newsreader (Mozilla can be used that way), you actually copy the body of the message in your own computer's hard disk. The delete function actually removes it from there.
