"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote:
> -Lost wrote: 
>
> "Use of X-No-Archive began when DejaNews debuted in early 1995. DejaNews
> was the first large-scale, commercial attempt to archive the Usenet news
> feed, and a number of regular newsgroup participants were concerned
> about privacy rights, as well as the possibility that their messages
> could be re-posted through DejaNews at some point in the future."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive  "When DejaNews was purchased
> by Google, Google continued to honor the X-No-Archive protocol.
> Beginning in 2005, Google's newsgroup service (Google Groups) changed
> its handling of X-No-Archive, allowing messages with the header to be
> archived and made available for view for a period of six days; after six
> days, the message was then deleted from the archive."

No they do NOT delete it from the archive. Google stops displaying the
message but it is still in their archive in case they change their
minds later. Look at your Google profile & you'll see that it includes
in the month by month count for any group messages that are
X-no-archive'd. Google still has them!

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