Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
WLS (CompTIA A+ Certified - Retired) wrote:
Bob wrote:
Is this a known problem? In a newsgroup, Delete message, Cancel
message grayed out. Del key not working.
Thanks for any help.
Bob
In about:config change news.allow_delete_with_no_undo to true. You
should then be able to delete newsgroup messages from your
SeaMonkey.
They will still be on the news server, Google groups, and the mailing
lists
Then in what sense are they "deleted"?
Sounds like you're telling the OP how to hide them so he has the illusion that
they're gone, but they're not.
See how easy it is to be a magician. Now you see it, now you don't!
Call them hidden, removed, deleted, whichever you prefer.
This discussion has occurred before. I'm sure you can find it on Google Groups,
use another newsreader to find it, repair your SeaMonkey or Thunderbird support
newsgroup folders and download the posts (if you have hidden, removed, deleted
them).
If you have never removed, hidden, deleted any posts (you got a lotta posts),
you should be able to find them.
Yes, you can reload them in to your SeaMonkey or Thunderbird, because like any
text post (or binary) they remain on the news server for a very, very, very long
time. Giganews binary retention is 1194 days, and 3063+ days of text.
Let's see 3063/365 = 8.39 years of text, and news.mozilla.org is hosted on
Giganews.
If the discussion is about deleting a post from the news server. It ain't gonna
happen. Some servers will cancel, some don't.
I forget what versions of SeaMonkey and Thunderbird the
news.allow_delete_with_no_undo false preference was included, but it came after
the version that allowed you to delete (hide) posts from SeaMonkey and
Thunderbird, which was a change from the previous versions that didn't, and
didn't even have that preference included.
I suppose another option would be to search release notes. I'm pretty sure TB
3.1 didn't and don't think SM 2.0.14 did.
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