On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:33:07 +0100, K wrote:

Pete Stockdale writes

They are not "removed" it is just that the Google system will not reproduce
them in public.
It is easily achieved by altering your group setting.
However the best way of defeating this is for reply posters to repeat all
immediately previous posts.
The post of the removal choosers are then recorded and are irremovable.
This will only work of course as long as these "short sighted" people remain
in a significant minority.
Your reader will also record the post for several months and even the Martin
P's of this world can't remove entries from that archive.

Given that the x-no-archive facility exists, then it's up to the
originator of the post to decide whether he/she wishes their post to be
archived, and quite offensive for someone else to deliberately go
against their wishes in the way that you describe.

If I were requesting my posts not to be archived, and I realised someone
was quoting them in full with the intention of having them archived,
then I would simply stop posting.

[QUOTED IN FULL FOR GOOGLE ARCHIVE PURPOSES]