Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric
From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: more ways to kill articles
Message-ID: <227b3604:9d29@snark.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 88 14:28:12 GMT
Organization: ite
Lines: 23
Summary: Not bad ideas, but...
Discussion: <14720@oddjob.UChicago.EDU>


In article <2182@rayssd.ray.com>, gmp@rayssd.RAY.COM (Paris) writes:
>What I'd like:
>
>1.  A way to kill articles by amount of included text, accounting
>    for various indenting characters like >, <, -, and <tab>.

Interesting idea. I might have time to add this to 3.0 before release.
Seems a bit unselective, though.

>2.  A way to kill articles by long signature, especially articles
>    with signatures not preceded by the "--<space><return>" sequence.

Um, how would you tell what things were signatures?

>3.  A way to kill followups (efficiently) to articles that were
>    auto-killed, for example, followups to webber@ articles.

3.0 has this, sort of, for one major case. There's an 'unsuscribe discussion'
command that kills all followups to a given ID.
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