On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:50 PM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 12Jun2018 07:48, Tamara Berger <brg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:17 AM, T Berger <brg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Sorry, to bother you again. But is there some way to edit a message once > >> > its posted? Or do I have to delete it and rewrite it? > >> > >> Nope. And you can't delete it either. > > > >I deleted them a number of time, then got a bar across the page indicating > >that a post had been deleted. > > As has been mentioned, any "delete" you do on Google Groups is pretty limited, > possibly only to Google's copy. The message has already gone planetwide. > > Google's delete _may_ propagate to the rest of usenet, and _may_ be obeyed in > some of those places. But it certainly doesn't propagate to the mailing list, > and even if it did, those of use who pull the list down to our personal mail > folders would ignore such a thing. > > >It's nuts that you can't edit your own post. > > No, it is actually good: > > - there's not one copy of your post that google can modify: it gets copied > planet wide, to thousands or millions of independent places > > - how do people discover that you've modified a post, to review your change? > how do their replies before your modification make any kind of sense if the > preceeding message is no longer what they replied to?
I just meant edit within the moment or two after you've posted a message. I think a good feature in this forum would allow posters to edit their messages in just that way. I have such a feature enabled in gmail. I can "undo" my action for 30 seconds after I've clicked on "send." > The correct way to correct a post is to follow up to it (reply to it) with a > correction or clarification. That way everyone sees the change/fix as a new > messge. And it works even though the messages get copied everywhere, because > all that has to happen is to copy your own new message. Got it. Thanks, Tamara -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list