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From: sandra@pyrtech (Sandra Macika)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: inappropriate postings
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Date: 30 Aug 90 16:56:18 GMT
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In article <1990Aug30.025814.22471@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> richman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Richman) writes:
>
>Why couldn't the header convention I mentioned work for rec.pets?
>Two  reasons:  (i)  The  shear volume would translate to too many
>posters not using the headers and,  most  importantly,  (ii)  the
>system  blocks  out articles, it does not pass them on.  So every
>possible keyword would have to be entered in order  to  just  let
>birds through.
>
>=  Mike Richman  Atmospheric Sciences  Water Survey  U. of Illinois =

This is only true if you use "rn" to read your news. If you use "readnews"
to read your news, you type in the Articles you want to read about.
For example, you could type:

readnews -t CATS BIRDS

if you only wanted to read Articles that had the word "CATS" or "BIRDS" in
the beginnig of the subject line.

My system has both "rn" and "readnews" available. Try reading the man page.
Let me know if you have questions.

Sandra