On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:33 PM, Cherry Delaney wrote:

Does this sufficiently answer your concern for asking a different question??

Not really, no.

You keep referring to emails, but there are no emails to delete; OK that's perhaps being a bit pedantic, but you can either delete complete topics or individual messages within topics. Which is it?

If you want to delete complete topics then the advice Bruce provided should be followed. Go to your Account and set Items per Page to 50 or 100; it's probably set to the default of 20 at the moment. Then go to the Topics view of your group, and add -test to the URL and refresh the page to enter that (trial) mode.I suggest that you then go to the oldest pages of the topics list. Each Topic will have a check box beside it; Check the topics you want to delete, or click the "check box on its own" at the top to select all the topics on that page. Then click on the red Delete button at the top and confirm the decision.? A complete page of topics will disappear for only a very few clicks.

IIRC the only downside is that after every deletion the topics view reverts to the newest page (i.e. 1) so you have have to go and find the oldest page of topics all over again.

If you want to do it "message by message" then I am afraid that you have made a rod for your own back.

Chris