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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Killing messages
Message-ID: <501@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 09:20:41 GMT
References: <12083@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: erc@khijol.UUCP (Edwin R. Carp)
Organization: Deadly Force, Inc., aka Clint Eastwood School of Diplomacy
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In article <12083@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jmdoyle@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Doyle) writes:
>Here's a strange question: How do I kill off all articles from a certain
>news group? Let me explain. We have a group here called junk. Any article

How 'bout "find /usr/spool/news/junk -type f -exec rm -f {} \; &" ?  That's
what I use.  I also use a small shell script to automatically add unknown
news groups to my active file.

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