Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!stc!root44!gwc From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: KILL files (using multiple newsgroups) Summary: beware of linking! Message-ID: <1873@root44.co.uk> Date: 28 Mar 90 13:11:59 GMT References: <1782@fredonia.UUCP> <25069@princeton.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England Lines: 17 Marty Saletta asked if there is a way to use the same KILL file for more than one newsgroup. Tom Reingold suggested linking them together using "ln". Tom, please don't post answers without testing them out first. Your suggestion will cause the "THRU" line added to the KILL files by rn to be corrupted, causing incorrect KILL file processing. Marty, I don't know of any general solution to your request. You could define a macro to be used for adding to the relevant KILL files, which adds the same line to each one. But that would mean you couldn't use nice features like /pattern/K:=:j in those newsgroups. -- Geoff Clare, UniSoft Limited, Saunderson House, Hayne Street, London EC1A 9HH gwc@root.co.uk (Dumb mailers: ...!uunet!root.co.uk!gwc) Tel: +44-1-315-6600 (from 6th May 1990): +44-71-315-6600