Google publishes 2 ways to remove your own usenet posts from their archives. When it was "deja news", this was known as "nuking", so you might search on that term for more info. I've not used it, so cannot attest to it's effectiveness, but it at least says it's still possible.
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=186852 As for making sure it doesn't get archived in the first place, Deja News created a header field called "X-No-Archive" to deal with that, and Google still says they honor it. http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=46487 Again, I've not used it since Google Groups came into the picture, so cannot attest to it's effectiveness or if it works when coming from this listserv instead of from the usenet group or if that screws it up. Back many years ago when I used a real newsreader and participated in usenet groups directly it worked just as advertised. I still occasionally visit a couple of very old usenet groups, and still see posts come thru with "x-no-archive" as the first line, so presumably it still works. I am not familiar with other usenet archives so don't know if they honor the same parmameters, or have alternatives. I admit I'm not sure if this is what we're talking about or not, and I don't know the answer to the age old question "If a post is hidden, will anyone hear it fall in the forest?" but thought I'd add my 2 cents to the confusion. hth, tom -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 2:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Deleting post Sensitivity: Private Ah. Now that makes sense. I wish there were no publically available archive too. I get emails from dippy software vendors who must be doing email scraping from the DB2 list. We don't even run DB2. I wish they'd go away. But, instead, I put up another autodelete rule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
