Quote Originally Posted by Warbaby1943 View Post
Looks to me like you put a check in the box in the upper right hand corner then go to the bottom and click on delete messages.

No, the trouble is that move only "soft deletes" the message and it'll turn out the way Tufty put it: there is a "trace" showing what was recently there. I had the same problem when I was on staff and would do some trial posts at a staff-only Forum to prepare what would come out in the Hall of Fame (because fixing anything once you'd posted the real thing in HF could be tricky). Those "pre-posts" and try-out posts were meant to be scrapped afterwards, but I could only soft delete them, had to ask cariad to do the permanent deletion.