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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: several questions
Message-ID: <10284@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 14:08:30 GMT
References: <46929@bbn.COM>
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In article <46929@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>harelb@arthur.UUCP (Harel Barzilai) writes:
>> [...]
>>(3)In one of the newsgroups I read, there's often a series of articles
>>I don't want to read and I know exactly how many articles I want to
>>skip (i.e., and have them be considered as read); how do I do this
>>[the newsgroup is misc.headlines.unitex, and I'll often find something
>>like "subject:UN session on...(part 1 of 11)"]
> [...]
>But what you really want is:
>
>  /UN session on/:j

You might also try the command "k", which the rn "help" command defines as
     k    Mark current SUBJECT as read.
For example, the subject line of this article is 
     Subject: Re: several questions
The "k" command will kill all articles with the subject line
     Re: several questions

This may not work with Harel's example
     subject:UN session on...(part 1 of 11)
because of the variable part numbers.  But, in keeping with my
"conservation of typing" principle, I sure would try "k" before
    /UN session on/:j

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Dick Grady              r_r_grady@att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4