rh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert L. Howard) (09/06/89)
I want to create a KILL file (in rn) for a newsgroup that will junk all
articles *except* those with a particular title. Futhermore, I want this
to happen every time I enter the newsgroup as I know that a single article
with this subject will appear each day.
My first approach to the problem (taken from the rn man page) was the
following entry
/^/:j
/50 Years/m:s 50_Years
What I was hoping this would do was junk everthing and then mark this
particular subject as unread (and save it to a file for later). This
works too well though. Since the mark command looks back through all
read articles, it seems that every day that there is one more
article to mark unread (along with the others from previous days). You
can see that in a year's time that this will be unmanagable.
What I *want* the KILL file to do is this,
/(subjects that DON'T contain '50 Years')/:j
/50 Years/:s 50_Years
then I can go on and read that single article every day.
I'll accept any solution to the problem, no matter how cumbersome (though
I'd appreciate an explanation to a solution that is not inherently
obvious :-)
Please reply via e-mail and I will summarize the most elegant solutions.
Thanks in advance,
Robert
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