jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Doyle) (12/10/89)
Here's a strange question: How do I kill off all articles from a certain
news group? Let me explain. We have a group here called junk. Any article
posted to a group that has not been newgrouped here ends up in junk. The
problem is I have to plow through a lot of articles I don't want to read.
Any ideas?
Jen
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Disclaimer: I am a student, I represent the future.erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp) (12/11/89)
In article <12083@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Doyle) writes: >Here's a strange question: How do I kill off all articles from a certain >news group? Let me explain. We have a group here called junk. Any article How 'bout "find /usr/spool/news/junk -type f -exec rm -f {} \; &" ? That's what I use. I also use a small shell script to automatically add unknown news groups to my active file. --------------------------- discard all after this line ------------------------ Ed Carp N7EKG/5 (28.3-28.5) ...!attctc!puzzle!khijol!erc (home) (512) 445-2044 Snail Mail: 1800 E. Stassney #1205 Austin, Tx 78744 "You may think you're smart, Pierce, but you're STUPID! But, you've met your match in ME!" - Col. Flagg "Good tea. Nice house." -- Worf
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (12/12/89)
In article <12083@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Doyle) writes: | Here's a strange question: How do I kill off all articles from a certain | news group? Let me explain. We have a group here called junk. Any article | posted to a group that has not been newgrouped here ends up in junk. The | problem is I have to plow through a lot of articles I don't want to read. | Any ideas? You can (a) mark all as read (cy in rn, K in vnews), or unsubscribe to the group (u in rn, ug in vnews). If you're the site admin, and it doesn't sound as though you are, you can expire it regularly (like hourly). -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (12/12/89)
In article <12107@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Mary Doyle) writes: | Good question. Tell me the answer. The answer is *not* unsubscribe, as about | 10 million people have emailed me to say, one of them in big letters. It is | not killfiles affecting the header either, as I've tried this. The group | name doesn't show up in the header. So, what do I do? Now that you've clarified the question, you can do it in rn, although it takes a bit of diddling. Unmark the newsgroups field with "& +hnewsgroups" and then you can use "/alt.barf/hj" to zap the groups you don't want. I assume that you can get this into the KILL and .rninit files although I only tried it interractively. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz) (12/13/89)
In article <12083@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Doyle) writes: >Here's a strange question: How do I kill off all articles from a certain >news group? Let me explain. We have a group here called junk. Any article >posted to a group that has not been newgrouped here ends up in junk. The >problem is I have to plow through a lot of articles I don't want to read. The answers posted so far don't seem to match your question -- Those tell you how to delete *everything*, and I got the impression that you wanted to delete everything but a (few?) certain group(s). I'm going to assume you are using "rn" -- if you're not, sorry, can't help (it helps to include what software you're using and what version level -- this applies to any computer related plea for help, something like telling an auto mechanic the year and model). For the sake of example I'm going to assume you want to get rid of everything except articles for alt.callahans (I've seen you there, and it's a new enough group that it probably falls into junk on some machines). When you're on the first new article in junk, type /alt\.callahans/h:M c y The first command will look for all occurances of alt.callahans in article headers (the h) and will mark them *un*read (the capital M is important as articles marked with the lowercase m will go away when the 'c' command is used). The next line will now mark all the rest of the articles as read. Now quit from junk and re-enter it, and only the alt.callahans articles will be there. If you want to get fancy you can put a variant of this in your KILL file (see "man rn" for variations on the above and for KILL files). -Dan uunet!ashtate!dveditz dveditz@ashtate.A-T.COM