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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: KILL a particular poster
Message-ID: <3178@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 91 13:54:47 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.180250.9271@ssd.kodak.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Feb4.180250.9271@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
| I read an article in this newsgroup asking how to kill news
| articles sent from a particular person.
| 
| I thought that the reply stated that you would put the following
| in your KILL file: (for ex., to kill all articles posted from dcox)
| 
| /: from:.*dcox/h:j
   ^^
| 
| It doesn't seem to work.  Am I missing an extra space or something?

  No, you have an extra colon and space. The reason that subjects start
with a colon when inserted with K is that they my be either "Subject:"
or "Subject: Re:" forms, and you want to look at the part after the last
colon. It's a regular expression, and if you want to be really safe you
can add a ^ before the from. Case is ignored.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  "I'll come home in one of two ways, the big parade or in a body bag.
   I prefer the former but I'll take the latter" -Sgt Marco Rodrigez