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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: kill files
Keywords: forgive me, I'm an ignorant ME
Message-ID: <43490@bbn.COM>
Date: 29 Jul 89 13:26:38 GMT
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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

I have a question what this does:  how do you predict what will be
*all* the interesting thread-subjects that could possibly interest you
in a newsgroup?  If your KILL file does what you apparently want, you
won't even have the _opportunity_ to pick up new threads that happen to
catch your interest, since they'll all just silently disappear.

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