lane@cs.rochester.edu (Lane A. Hemachandra) (08/06/89)
SUMMARY--> Can one set up a kill file so that, each time a certain newsgroup (say, rec.arts.comics!) is visited, one sees exactly those NEW articles that have "REVIEW" in the title, but do not have "Re:" in the title? From: poole@ut-emx.UUCP (Steve Poole) Subject: Re: kill files In article <2300@hp-sdd.hp.com> martya@hpsdl39.UUCP (Marty Albini) writes: > > I would like to spend less time sifting thru the flames and rubble >while looking for the good stuff. I've tried using KILL files like this: > >THRU nnnn >/^/j >/stuff_I_wanna_read/m Try this kill file: THRU nnnn /stuff_I_wanna_read/M After the kill file finishes, give the c command. The c command will kill everything not marked with the M command. After the c command finishes, all of the articles that your kill file marked with M will then return and be available for you to read. And the c command will be a lot faster than junking each file seperately. I don't know why your kill file doesn't work. I've had the same problem with that form of kill file. Steve Poole's suggestion seems to almost work for me (the catch is that the /stuff/M command reaches back and undeletes all "stuff" articles... including those that have been read before, so I have to quicky return to the group and to a second "c"... but immediately after the first "c" it does indeed show exactly the new articles with "stuff" in them). However, I'd like to do something a bit more elaborate. Does anyone know how go one step further? Suppose one would like, in a given newsgroup, to see, each time one goes to the newsgroup, just the NEW messages that contain in the title the string "stuff_I_wanna_read" THAT DO NOT CONTAIN "Re:" in the title. Is there a way to setup one's KILL file to do this??? THANKS!!! Lane -- Lane A. Hemachandra 716-275-1203 University of Rochester lane@cs.rochester.edu Computer Science Department ...!{allegra,decvax,rutgers}!rochester!lane Rochester, New York, 14627