So to spare you the trouble, we are just going to delete this message from your inbox and clear your trash folder.

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So if you hold that right swiping gesture just a bit longer, the bar turns red and the checkmark turns to an x to let you know that if you let go at this point you will delete the current message.

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Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it's unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing).

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Delete the email or text message, or hang up the call.

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That said, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete or move a single message in a conversation, but rather I must edit the whole exchange.

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Mr Jenkins found that by making changes to the web address after sending a message, he could read and delete other users' messages.

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He sent Mr. Pflaum a BlackBerry message that he had read the article 10 times, and told him to delete his BlackBerry messages, according to the complaint.

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