Deleting a Public Key from a server

[Joseph]

On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 16:35, private1@mac.com wrote:
> When I had a crash (and no backup) I lost my old sec-key. Now I created 
> a new one but people don't know which one to use or use the wrong one. 
> How can I delete the the old pub-key ?
> 
> I am totally new to GPG and Terminal-commands/usage. So please be so 
> kind to explain it like to a 3 year old kid. Thanks!

I don't think you can delete the key from the server.
One way of doing it is to create key an name it "DO NOT USE"
Sign your public key the one that you lost the pass-phrase to with the
key you just created "DO NOT USE" and post it to the key-server.

Joseph