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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Avoiding the flame war
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Date: 11 Feb 91 15:52:07 GMT
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In article <91040.184351PMR2@psuvm.psu.edu> PMR2@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I've seen some nice, rational postings asking people to cease fire, but
>the flame war still goes on.  Is there some way I can instruct my
>NETNEWS reader to say, filter out from comp.sys.atari.st all articles
>with the word 'Amiga' in them (and vice versa for Amiga readers)?
>

This only works for rn or trn newsreaders, so if you are using a vax or other
newsreader you will have to consult your manual.

While reading your newsgroup (comp.sys.atari.st for atari people,
comp.sys.amiga.misc for amiga people), type ^K (control-k).

This should start your news editor (set by the environment variable NFED
in your .login or .cshrc file - example for a csh user: one line in the
.cshrc will read, setenv NFED "emacs" , if you want to use emacs for your
news editor).  The file you are editing is your kill file for the group
you are reading.  If you want to eliminate postings that contain the word
"amiga" in the title then add this line:

/amiga/:j

If you want to eliminate the word atari then add this line:

/atari/:j

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