Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!news From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: RN kill-filing of all but certain subjects Summary: How do I rn killfile everything except certain subjects? Message-ID: <1990Feb3.213343.27579@athena.mit.edu> Date: 3 Feb 90 21:33:43 GMT Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Northeastern University Lines: 27 This one should be simple, but it's got me going around in circles. How do I set up an RN killfile that will kill everything except articles which contain certain character strings in their subject line? The situation: In rec.games.frp, the only things I'm interested in are postings of "war stories" involving a character name Navero and a world named Tabernac. I'm assuming that all relevant articles will contain either "Navero" or "Tabern" in their subject line. What I've tried is the following killfile: THRU 18594 /.*/j /navero/r:m /tabern/r:m What happens, though, is that after executing the "/.*/j" which marks everything as read (btw, is there a faster way to do this -- I tried to put in an "^-$j", but it didn't get executed), RN, rather than going back to article 18594 and foreward-scanning for "navero", begins _backwards-scanning_ from 18594. Not good. I've tried this without the "r" following the slash-delimited string, and the same thing seems to happen. What should I do? -- William December Starr