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From: rwilliam@grebyn.com (Roger Williams)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: RN kill-filing of all but certain subjects
Summary: Try /foo/M: instead of /foo/:M
Message-ID: <19340@grebyn.com>
Date: 5 Feb 90 04:42:14 GMT
References: <1990Feb3.213343.27579@athena.mit.edu> <34108@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1990Feb4.191613.16386@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: rwilliam@grebyn.UUCP (Roger Williams)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing, Vienna, VA, USA
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In article <1990Feb4.191613.16386@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:

>In article <34108@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, David Goldfarb said:

>> 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 that you're interested in and marks
>> them to return. Then when you enter the article selection level
>> use the 'c' command.
>
>I received similar advice via email from a few people, so I tried it.
>It didn't work very well.  Here's what happened:

[demonstration that it didn't work]

OK, try this, change the command in your KILL file to
/whatever you're interested in/M: 

Note that the colon _follows_ instead of precedes the  upper case
M.  As Goldfarb says, this will mark the articles you're
interested in for later return.  Then hit c at the article
selection command to catch up all the rest of the unwanted
articles.  The wanted ones that were selected will be returned
and can then be read by hitting the spacebar.  I just tried  this
out and it worked for me.

Roger Williams
rwilliam@grebyn.com