# Deleted Threads Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [July 21, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862 "2003-07-21T06:01:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862/1 "2003-07-21T06:01:26Z")

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If a thread is deleted, could I still access the thread if I had the exact address? Or if it was saved in my favorites, could I still read the thread?

[sub]I do not have a link to a deleted thread in my favorites, nor do I have the ecaxt address of a deleted thread, I was just curious[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862/2 "2003-07-21T06:34:14Z")

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No.

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**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862/3 "2003-07-21T06:41:19Z")

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If you really really want a deleted thread, you’ll have to save it locally. Though I have no idea why on EARTH you’d want to do this.

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862/4 "2003-07-21T06:51:23Z")

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Thanks.  
It was just something that I had wondered about for a while.

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**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deleted-threads-question/189862/5 "2003-07-21T09:55:32Z")

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Much fun was had on the (pretty cut-throat) eBay message boards when it was discovered that _all_ the deleted threads, for time immemorial, were still accessible to the cognescenti (sp?).

Different type of board, tho’ … 😉

Julie