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From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: suggested feature
Message-ID: <3922.2539b24d@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 16 Oct 89 14:49:48 GMT
References: <406@mccall.uucp>
Organization: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada
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In article <406@mccall.uucp>, tp@mccall.uucp (Terry Poot) writes:
> Suggested change to ANU news:
> 
> On the KILL command, rather than just being able to say kill/subject, allow
> KILL/SUBJECT="text", where any message containing "text" anywhere in the
> subject line will be killed. I want to do KILL/SUBJECT="AQUARIA" in news.groups
> VERY badly!

I agree.  There is a "manual" way to do this.  Find a message in the
appropriate newsgroup with the offending word.  Do a KILL/SUBJECT on the item. 
Exit NEWS.  Edit your NEWSRC. file, find the appropriate entry (it should be at
the bottom of the file), and remove the unwanted text, and put stars (*) to
either side of the text.  For example,

		comp.sys.ibm.pc S:*windows*

kills any item in comp.sys.ibm.pc with a subject which includes the word
windows.

It would be nice if there were an automatic way to do this.

BTW has anyone had problems doing a KILL/FROM?  I seem to have an
"intermittent" problem which raises its ugly head if I have a large number of
items in my kill file.  It is, as I recall, an access violation and I get some
sort of dump (reminicent of what I get if I really screw things up in one of my
FORTRAN programs).
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