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From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
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Subject: Re: RN kill-filing of all but certain subjects
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Date: 4 Feb 90 05:45:53 GMT
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In article <1990Feb3.213343.27579@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
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)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?
)
)William December Starr 

       This question has come up before, so I'll post instead of 
email. A method that I just tested and seems to work is this:

/(whatever you're interested in)/:M 
                                  (note the upper case M!)
       This takes the articles hat you're interested in and marks
them to return. Then when you enter the article selection level
use the 'c' command. This will mark everything read and exit you
from the newsgroup, whereupon the M command from the kill file will
mark all the relevant articles as *un*read. You can then reenter
the group and read only the articles you want.
       If you don't want to go to the trouble of hitting 'c', you
can put the line '/./:j' in the kill-file, but 'c' will probably
be faster.

David Goldfarb    goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu   (Insert standard disclaimer)
"I love this season. The new snow muffles the sounds of approaching footsteps."
                     --Calvin & Hobbes, 1/28/90