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Subject: 
Strangeness
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:24:03 GMT
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I saw this post:
http://www.lugnet.com/trains/?n=4416

I was interested in the text which starts:
"To everyone else, if you start dealing with..."

I looked for the original message, but could not find it.

So I did a search for "To everyone else, if you start dealing with Michael"
ie:
http://www.lugnet.com/?q=To+everyone+else%2C+if+you+start+dealing+with+Micha
el%2C+make+him+put+what

And I found the message I wanted was cancelled:
http://www.lugnet.com/trains/?n=4414

Does this mean that the original text of cancelled messages is still
searchable?
If so, is it a good thing?

Does this mean that the original text of cancelled messages still exist on
the LUGNet Sever?


I think there are scenarios where this is a _bad_ thing - cancelled
commercially sensitive/porn/libellous posts etc.

Scott A



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  Re: Strangeness
 
(...) Yes, with the current article indexer, the original text of cancelled messages are still indexed. No, this isn't desirable. (...) Yes, mainly for legal reasons. (But it doesn't logically follow from the fact that the text is still indexed. The (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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