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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: a kill file is your friend
Message-ID: <10598@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 88 18:43:21 GMT
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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Just thought I'd mention about KILL files in the 'rn' newsreader,
for those of you that use rn.  You can type ^K to edit yours.

I bring it up because I've had one for a couple of years that I add to
know and then, and it's proven very handy for me.  A year ago when
everyone was yakking about piracy I filtered it out, and now that the
thread has started up again (these topics are cyclical) I haven't seen
any messages, just a note fron rn that it's throwing away lots of stuff.
It saves me a lot of reading time, not to mention my 'k' and 'n' keys.

Here's an example of what I use; edit it for your tastes.

/adverti/j
/apple/j
/atari/j
/bridge board/j
/bridgeboard/j
/copy protect/j
/ibm/j
/janus/j
/macintosh/j
/modula/j
/ms-dos/j
/os-2/j
/os\/2/j
/pascal/j
/piracy/j
/pirat/j
/unix/j

Of course now that you know what I filter, you can write a message
with the subject os-2 and complain about what a lousy job Bob Page
is doing on the sources groups and I'll never see it.  :-)

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
Have five nice days.