Re: My husbands going to kill me, please advise me?

if you are using outlook express, you can go up to "message" then select "cancel"

however it will still be up on many servers for a while... but i bet the calls will stop within a week or so as the mesaage drops

Don't sweat it too much... you can try "cancelling" the post with the newsreader software you're using, but other than that there's nothing else you can do to stop the post being seen. I say "don't sweat it" because posts fall into obscurity very quickly -- as long as you don't draw any further attention to them.

1) Use your newsreader to send a Cancel request for that post. It is only a "request", it may remove the post from some servers, but not all, and will do nothing about databases that've already been updated with that phone number. 2) Add that phone number to the national (and state if applicable) "Do Not Call" list. Those lists make take a few months to propigate to the solicitors, are not an immediate fix. 3) If all else fails you may have to turn off the ringer/machine after business hours or change the number. IIRC there are also call-blocking/screening hardware that work based on number lists or rules, provided you have caller-ID on that line.

Suggestions:

1. If you're using Outlook Express, you could select your post, then click on the "Message" pulldown and then "Cancel Message". That might help a little, but most of the damage is already done.

1. Tell your husband you were "stupid". It happens to all of us. I clicked on a readme.exe file once.

2. Call your phone company and get "Call Intercept" service. I did that recently and it stopped virtually all "Unavailable" or "Out of Area" calls.

-- Bob Day

In news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, rgmw Quoth The Raven:

stick your head in the microwave oven, its your only hope.

She's not Sylvia Plath, you know!

Unfortunately Google archives text posts, so whilst it may disappear from newservers, it will can still be found in google if people have enough info about the post.

In what context was the phone number given? If it's such that people are calling at night, then you have a serious problem. And the only way to deal with problems in any relationship is to come clean and tell the truth.

Buck.

1. Change of husband :)

The information on the Newsgroups is spread over servers worldwide. You'll have to change the phone number.

Flaccid wrote: > Don't sweat it too much... you can try "cancelling" the post with the > newsreader software you're using, but other than that there's nothing > else you can do to stop the post being seen.

It won't do any good. Since the "cancel wars" of the early and mid

1990s, most news servers do not honour cancel messages any more. Even when the articles expire on the server, they will stay in the Google archive.

Cheers David

OK. Post the number here, I'll call to help you. 8-)

That's why I said "try" cancelling. :)

Hmm, I thought Google honoured cancel requests? I'll have to test...

Okay, this is a test post which I will cancel later, to see if Google does indeed archive it or not. Keyword for easy searching is: GOOGTEST.

Just replying to my above post (containing "GOOGTEST") for posterity. If Google doesn't contain the above post by me, then we know that it honours cancel requests.

You can remove your post from Google, by setting up an account with the email used to post the message.

If you used a fake e-mail or email with a spamblock in it, you just send a cancel request (instructions are on their site).

They will always cancel it - but be warned, if you put in a cancel request for a message you didn't post you can be sued by both Google and the original poster.

I never understood cancelling newsgroup posts. I've tried it a few times, and when I check my 'sent items' in Outlook Express, it appears as simply a blank post/message?

it is a control message, if you check the format of the post it has commands in it that servers "should" act upon, the command message should circulate through all the same servers the original post went through, and cancel it on each server, however it doesn't help when a handful of servers don't obey, the original post remains on the server and the next feed just re-propagates the original post again. cancel-posts only work when all servers obey.

"rgmw" said in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Nope, you released it to a public medium. No way to yank it back. It's like yelling to a crowd that you're AIDS positive. Doesn't matter if you are or aren't, and you can't undo that the folks in the crowd heard it.

If there is a gun in the house, make sure to load it with blanks before telling your husband of your error.

If I see this posted one more @#$%&ing time, I'LL *&^%$ing kill her!!!!

Kim M