how can I delete my posted question

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I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?

Thanks.
 
Wizard said:
I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?
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You can't. You just post a reply saying "Please ignore" or similar.

Nick
 
Wizard said:
I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?
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Newsgroup <> forum.

If you posted a question in a newsgroup - it has been spread to (likely)
1000's of replicated newsgroup servers around the world. There is no
"take-backs" in the newsgroup world.

My suggestion to you is to find your original post and respond to it with
the solution that you found. That way those reading it later will know you
found the answer *and* they will know what that answer is - that way - if
days/weeks/months/years later someone is searching for help on the very
subject you posted on - they won't just find your question with no
definitive "here is the answer" post or "thanks that helped" response from
you marking one of the answers as the correct one.

Would this be the question you are referring to?
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...46d13?lnk=st&q=&rnum=2&hl=en#59241ae9a3546d13

If so - then a search for the same subject using google also brought up
these:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...02060?lnk=st&q=&rnum=3&hl=en#903bf7be57502060

and

http://groups.google.com/group/alt....5288f?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#f162c7a93555288f

and

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...351ab?lnk=st&q=&rnum=3&hl=en#7a00d7aa633351ab

and

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...cf1a6?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#3ef02c73822cf1a6

Which is probably how you found your answer in the first place?
 
Wizard said:
I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?

Thanks.
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Some newsservers have a recall, or delete, or cancel function. Google
news does. But the other servers who have already recieved the message
are free to ignore it. Most do, because of abuse of the system,
canceling other people's posts. Best is to reply, and say "nevermind,
found it" or something.
 
Wizard said:
I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?

Thanks.
Click to expand...

Some newsservers have a recall, or delete, or cancel function. Google
news does. But the other servers who have already recieved the message
are free to ignore it. Most do, because of abuse of the system,
canceling other people's posts. Best is to reply, and say "nevermind,
found it" or something.
 
Forget it. Can't do it. However, that's okay. If it was a legitimate
question, odds are that someone else can benefit from the answer anyway.
That's what newsgroups are all about.

-Frank
 
Wizard said:
I just posted a questions abd figured it out immediately afterward.

How can I delete my posted questions so I don't waste anyone's time?
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In general, trying to cancel a newsgroup posting is useless. It rarely has
any effect unless it's done almost immediately, and even then, it doesn't
always help.

The reason is that you post your message to the particular news server you
use. But your message is very quickly propagated to the hundreds or
thousands of other news servers all over the world that carry the same
newsgroup. At most, you can cancel the message from your news server, but
you can't have any effect on all the other news servers if your message is
already there. So unless you cancel before any propagation occurs, you
haven't really accomplished anything.
 
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