wpd@athena.mit.edu (William P Doyle) (07/09/87)
[actually, there really is something neat at the end of this...]
Wow, hey everybody, guess what I just discoverred. It's called the 'k' key.
Thats right! Whenever I see something in the subject line that says:
"Copy Protection...", or "I use this editor and it is the best...", or several
other like subjects, I just press the 'k' key and guess what? The amount of
time I spend reading comp.sys.amiga, drops by about 85% !!! Isn't that amazing?
Actually, along the lines of "wow, that was neat", did anybody happen to use
"db" on July 4th? It's great, it says "Happy Fourth!" each time it was
started. I haven't checked any other dates, but I will probably try to debug
something on January 1st.
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|____________________________________________|spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer) (07/10/87)
In article <1099@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wpd@athena.mit.edu (William P Doyle) writes: >[actually, there really is something neat at the end of this...] > >Wow, hey everybody, guess what I just discoverred. It's called the 'k' key. > | Patrick Doyle wpd@ATHENA.MIT.EDU | Ok, so I admidt, I didn't notice the 'k' key myself for a very long time. I mean, rn is nice, but the directions is pretty cryptic. I never knew what a global kill file was. Well, that is, I didn't until I started reading comp.sys.amiga at 1200 baud. I learned real quickly. This I then pass on to all who haven't learned about it yet. If you touch the 'K' key (not the 'k' key) when you are looking at an article it will not just move you to the next article, it will not just delete all of the current followups to that article, it will place the subject into a file that will clear out that subject FOREVER!!! That means that Copy Protect (although I am reading that thread) will never come back, you don't have to know what is being said. And when you see: What kind of computer should I buy?? sent to comp.sys.amiga, comp.atari.st, comp.sys.ibm, comp.sys.mac, you just hit that little 'K' key, and the flood of follow-ups disappear! And!! (here is the good part) If you don't see the flood of stupid messages you tend not to be angered by them and don't end up posting a stupid message yourself. (religion, just say "no!") -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)284-4740 I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)283-5469 Now working for |||||||||||::::... . . BUD-LINX But in no way |||||||||||||||::::.. .. . Officially representing ||||||||||||:::::... .. ....ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e spencer@mica.berkeley.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-