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28-02-2006, 03:38 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
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In general when you read newsgroups your newsreader only maintains
statistics locally on your computer. It uses these to 'remember'
which messages you already read in each newsgroup. When you reconnect
(if you have it set up the usual way) it shows you only messages you
haven't read before. When you 'delete' a message all you are doing is
saying you have read it so you don't see it again. It stays available
on the news server until such time it passes the new server's expiry
time which may vary from group to group but is usually (for text only
servers) in the sort of 3 to 30 days range.

You're applying the behaviour of your newsreader with everyone else's.

When I delete an item, it's deleted, gone, disappeared into the big
bit-bucket in the sky. It is nowhere on my computer, and I can't go and
collect it from the server.

But it never has been on your computer unless you are running your own
newsserver, you just have a copy inside your newsreader at the very
most.

.... and you *can* go and collect it from the server, your newsreader
may not be able to but that's not the same thing.

Though I do acknowledge your 'in general'.

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Chris Green