http://www.developersdex.com/asp/mes...1825&r=6778007

Some quick detective work turned up this link. I'm sure you can figure
it out on your own. ;-)


Paul Randall wrote:
Assuming that you are correct, how would I find the original post for
this reply thread:

http://groups.google.com/g/78d7fef5/...3c1171c515dd26

I just want to know as a learning exercise.

-Paul Randall

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:49:08 -0500, Bob I wrote:

What makes you believe you can remove it?


Most people believe they can because their newsreader has that
function built into it. But what they don't realize is that although
this particular newsgroup is on a server hosted by Microsoft, it is
also echoed to hundreds or thousands of other news servers all over
the world, and that propagation happens very quickly. Even if you
could delete your message from the Microsoft Server, it would have no
effect on the many other servers it had already reached.

For the same reason, not even Microsoft can really remove it.



LOLL wrote:

My post has disappeared, Why would this happen?
Who can remove a post apart from me and Microsoft?

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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