Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Comp.sys.amiga (Was Re: Same post five times) Message-ID: <1990Oct3.210629.8403@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 3 Oct 90 21:06:29 GMT References: <1414@winnie.fit.edu> <87027@aerospace.AERO.ORG> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 42 huebner@sunpoison.UUCP (Robert E. Huebner) writes: rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes: >>I am going to put this as politely as possible, I am tired of seeing the >["You know what" deleted] >Could somebody please post the correct procedure for putting a NAME into a >kill file instead of an article title. This should be posted on something >like news.questions (?), but I'm sure there are others here that would like >to know. (Using rn, of course) Well, since I sent Charles (and his postmaster) a letter only yesterday telling him this would be the likely response to his bullying, I'd be more than glad to help out. Fire up rn, go to comp.sys.amiga, get to where you are looking at the body of an article, and type control-K. This will throw you into whatever editor you have defined in $VISUAL, and you will be editing a file called $HOME/News/Comp/sys/amiga/KILL (with cases as shown) add a line to your file that looks like this: /rcs91900@zach/h:j save the file, exit the newsgroup, go back to it, and you should see "Looking for files to kill" at the top of your screen. Comp.sys.amiga is a _big_ group, it will take a while. For each of Charles' articles, you will see a line saying "
junked". Isn't that nice! That line reads "look for the string (/.../) "rcs91900@zach" in the header ("h") and for each one found (":"), junk the article ("j"). Junking is better than killing ("k"), because it gets the crossposts too. The good news is, the next time you read the group, the kill process starts where _it_ left off killing articles, not where you left off reading them, so second and subsequent tries go lots faster. Anything to promote a kinder, gentler net (except shutting up, but then "/xanthian@Zorch/h:j" works well too, for the many folks that have seen more than their fair share of my bombast over the years. In fact, rumor has it, its the net's third or fourth most popular kill file entry. ;-) Kent, the man from xanth.