And it came to pass that Jabali Pragya wrote:
> 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.
Which is fine when you're using it offline. It's still a sloppy
label for the function when you're online.
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