Removing Newsgroup Messages

I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like
to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it
says I was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I don't
want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear them off of
my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

mpdd wrote:
I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like
to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it
says I was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I
don't want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear
them off of my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

You can't as such using Mozilla. What you CAN do is to set the time for
retention of messages. When the message age goes beyond the time set, it
will be purged. (Tools-Account Settings-(click on the news account)-Disk
Space)

HTH

mpdd wrote:
I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like
to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it
says I was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I
don't want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear
them off of my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

It would depend on which newsreader you are using. Post back with more
details.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

Ronnie Vernon MVP wrote:
mpdd wrote:
I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would
like to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete
them it says I was not the original poster so I don't have
permission. I don't want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only
want to clear them off of my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

It would depend on which newsreader you are using. Post back with more
details.

From message headers:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Just go to the dbx folder group and identify The Microsoft Newsgroup Folders
[there will be one for each specific newsgroup you have visited] and delete
the entire folder. DO NOT open the folder and attempt to delete individual
messages. Out look Express will rebuild the folder the next time you go back
to that Newsgroup.
Gene
"mpdd" wrote in message
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I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like to
delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it says I
was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I don't want to
delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear them off of my hard
drive.

Any suggestions?

Gene K wrote:
Just go to the dbx folder group and identify The Microsoft Newsgroup
Folders [there will be one for each specific newsgroup you have
visited] and delete the entire folder. DO NOT open the folder and
attempt to delete individual messages. Out look Express will rebuild
the folder the next time you go back to that Newsgroup.
Gene
"mpdd" wrote in message
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I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would
like to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete
them it says I was not the original poster so I don't have
permission. I don't want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only
want to clear them off of my hard drive.

Any suggestions?

From message headers:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)
So presumably the OP is using Netscape 7/2?

Change your Newsgroup to only show unread files. Mark the entire Newsgroup
as read. Now only new messages will be displayed.

--

Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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"mpdd" wrote in message
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I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like to
delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it says I
was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I don't want to
delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear them off of my hard
drive.

Any suggestions?

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 09:57:13 -0800, "Darrell S"
wrote:

Change your Newsgroup to only show unread files. Mark the entire Newsgroup
as read. Now only new messages will be displayed.

Well that might work if the OP was using OE as you are. If you
checked the headers, however, you'd notice they are NOT using OE.

Please don't post "matter of factly" when you don't know the facts.

Edit, Mail and Newsgroup Accou........., Offline and disk space. Adjust
as you see fit.

mpdd wrote:



I have downloaded several thousand newsgroup messages and I would like
to delete/remove them from my computer. When I try to delete them it
says I was not the original poster so I don't have permission. I don't
want to delete them from the newsgroup, I only want to clear them off of
my hard drive.

Any suggestions?