Delete story

[Dave Winer]

It might break something.

We did it that way so that if someone broke into your system it would be
possible to recover. That was based on experience with an earlier system
where delete got rid of what was being deleted, not just unlinking it.

If you absolutely have to get the text to disappear, I'd edit the table,
replacing the text with something innocuous, but I would leave the table
there.

Dave


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Raiselis" <bob.raiselis at VALLEY.NET>
To: <Frontier-Users at userland.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Delete story


> When I delete a story in Manila, it still exists in the database with the
> "deleted" flag set to true. Can I safely delete that whole "00000258"
> entry in that table on the server, or will that break something? This old
> story keeps turning up with the "do you want to undelete this story"
> message, and I want to get rid of it once and for all.
>
> thanks.
>
> Bob