wig wrote:

well three people have replied quoting the edited/changed text I made.
Those three people were all usenet posters. So either my edited text
was posted as a 'reply' to the original, or the post was indeed edited
on the usenet news group. - which is interesting if nothing else.

You had two original posts visible on usenet - one talking about edits,
the other asking the question about sticky pads.

I'm not trying here to be rude or smart aleck with people, this post is
intended to be courteous. I was just interested if my usenet post would
be edited.

Usenet posts can be cancelled by a followup cancel post sent from the
same account (in theory - but not all news servers honour cancel posts).
You can't go back and edit an existing post.

Diybanter may let you edit, but as you found out it will simply result
in duplicated postings.

Note also that Diybanter does filter the text of postings to remove rude
words etc. It took me a while to work out what all these posts talking
about ho____er were about ;-) (h o t w a t e r - if spelt out without
spaces seems to upset the filter by virtue of the middle four characters!)

--
Cheers,

John.

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