On 1/2/2021 7:53 AM, Dave wrote:
On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 1:29:22 AM UTC+10:30, Peter T wrote:
Dave,

I think you will need to explain much more clearly what you want to do. I
sort of got the gist but not enough to even think making a suggestion.

Peter T

Hello Peter,

I realised this probably did not make sense so I thought I had deleted the post, so I was surprised to get a reply.
....

Just as a little background to explain that...

m.p.e.p is a usenet newsgroup. It may not look like anything but a
typical forum on google groups, but messages are broadcast to any and
all subscribed news servers, not just retrieved from a central location.

While there is a "delete" protocol, virtually no nntp (network news
transport protocol) servers implement it. Hence, the thread is out
there and will be forever whether you can delete it from the local
server/group display server you use or not...

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