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From: scott@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott Huddleston)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Several questions
Message-ID: <4718@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Sep 89 19:35:18 GMT
References: <3665@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: scott@tekcrl.LABS.TEK.COM (Scott Huddleston)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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>2.  Is there a command in rn similar to `K', but which `M's articles instead
>    of `j'unking them? IE, it would take the whole thread, and mark it
>    temporarily read, unmarking when I exit the newsgroup. Some command that
>    would do the same thing as `/ (subject) /:M' but without my having to
>    type in the subject string.

You can use rn escape sequences to make rn fill in the subject for you, e.g.

/esc-s/M

Or to mark followups to a specific article rather than a given subject, use

/esc-i/h:M

to select by article-ID.  This is handy for those endless subject 
lines with multiple divergent threads that frequently infect Usenet.
For numerous other escape sequences, see TFM.
-- 
Scott Huddleston
testing the semantics of the ".signature" file