On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:53:07 -0800, stephen.szikora wrote:

That less than helpful reply makes no sense to me. How does the way I
access rec.aviation.soaring have anything to do with the removal of
someone else's posting to the newsgroup?

If you're read the RFC you'd know that the NNTP protocol only permits a
posted message to be deleted by the original poster and that such removal
is not guaranteed. As it happens, the original message is still visible
(to me at least) via a newsreader.

None of the above applies to Google Groups which has its own rules about
posting and removal of posts. There is allegedly a 1:1 correspondence
between messages in the NNTP servers and those in Google group of the
same name: they are said to be synchronised but this is not necessarily
the case in the Real World (TM).


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