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Q: made a lot of mistakes in the beginning ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   2 Comments )
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Subject: made a lot of mistakes in the beginning
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: lightbulb-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 03 Sep 2002 16:54 PDT
Expires: 03 Oct 2002 16:54 PDT
Question ID: 61428
How does one completely delete one's name and comments from google usenet archives?
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Subject: Re: made a lot of mistakes in the beginning
Answered By: eiffel-ga on 04 Sep 2002 12:40 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hi lightbulb,

Google allows anyone to delete their own postings from the Google
Groups Usenet archive.

To do this, you must identify the email address or addresses from
which you made those postings. An easy way to do this is to visit
Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/
and search for one of your postings. Click on your name in the article
header (near the top of the screen) and you will see a list of all the
articles you have posted.

If you posted the articles from your current email address, you may
remove them using an automated process. Otherwise, you must send an
email to Google including a sworn statement that you posted these
messages.

Detailed instructions are provided in questions 7 and 12 of the
following web page:

Google Groups Help
://www.google.com/googlegroups/help.html

To avoid your future Usenet postings being archived by Google Groups,
you may configure your newsreader to add the following header to each
outgoing message:

   X-No-Archive: yes

Alternatively, you may type the above text as the first line of your
posting.


Additional link:

Google Groups Posting FAQ
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/posting_faq.html


Google search strategy:

"google groups" "nuking a post"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22google%20groups%22%20%22nuking%20a%20post%22


Regards,
eiffel-ga
lightbulb-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars

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Subject: Re: made a lot of mistakes in the beginning
From: knowledge_seeker-ga on 04 Sep 2002 09:08 PDT
 
You aren't the only one ...

https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=36799

Good luck -- K~
Subject: Re: made a lot of mistakes in the beginning
From: lightbulb-ga on 20 Sep 2002 20:10 PDT
 
Although the post removing tool at google allows one to remove
individual posts , it isn't a cure all. If the message has been
responded to by others it will still be posted within the thread with
your name attached. So until there becomes a way to completely remove
your name and e-mail from the entire thread the message you wrote will
remain.

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