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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do you delete certain authors?
Message-ID: <1934@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 14:52:05 GMT
References: <1989Dec18.210607.7800@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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Reply-exos:@crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)

In article <1989Dec18.210607.7800@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mec4n@boole.acc.Virginia.EDU (Mary ellen J. Carrera) writes:
| I have just tried using a kill file for the first time, and I have a
| question. Is it only the subject line that is searched for the pattern?
| If so, is there some way to make it search other parts of the article,
| such as the sender name?

The trick is in the character after the pattern. For what you want to
do, you want 'h' to scan for the author anywhere in the header.

	/Gwanne/hj

would junk any article with Gwanne anywhere in the header, including the
author field. You can also filter out an entrie site by

	/@morbid.closter.edu/hj

looking for the Reply-to and/or Message-ID fields.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon