booter@well.UUCP (Elaine Richards) (06/23/87)
To answer the Burning Question of how to avoid reading net.icky writers, sites etc... When you're reading articles in a newsgroup (ie you just read something by someone you never want to hear from again...), type ^K to get into your kill file with (default) vi (or $EDITOR).. Now, if you already have items in your kill file, it would look something like this: THRU 666 /: *Bad Breath/:j /: *Horseradish Souffle /:j etc As you might have guessed, the things between the //s are regular expressions on the subject line, so you can have things like: /[Hh]orses/:j /[Mm][Ii][Cc][eE]/:j Etc. Now in order to get rn to go over the whole header rather than just the subject line, just add an h after the following /. ie /turkey@farmcomputer/h:j /@farmcomputer.UUCP (/h:j This will keep you from having to read stuff from a person named "turkey" at a site called "farmcomputer" in the first case. In the second, it should filter out all postings from "farmcomputer". Usually, it does not get so bad that you need to take option two. Yours for a quieter evening's readings... E *****