Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!news From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: RN kill-filing of all but certain subjects Message-ID: <1990Feb6.032448.20062@athena.mit.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 03:24:48 GMT References: <1990Feb3.213343.27579@athena.mit.edu> <34108@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1990Feb4.191613.16386@athena.mit.edu> <19340@grebyn.com> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Northeastern University Lines: 39 Our story so far: I want to set up an RN kill file that'll (1) save from junking any articles with certain secret code words in their subject lines and (2) blow away all other articles. Somebody suggested a two-tier approach consisting of (1) putting nothing but "/secret words/:M" (without the quote marks) in my kill file and then, after the kill file ran, doing a "cy" to junk _everything_, secure in the knowledge that that "M" will cause to be restored all the stuff I want to save. I tested out Phase (1) and got some weird results, to wit: despite the fact that I had my secret words enclosed in /slashes/ instead of ?question marks? and despite the fact that the character "r" did not appear anywhere in my command stream, RN still proceeded to do a backwards search thru stuff I'd already read until it found a match for my secret words. (As a side note, when it was doing this, RN did _not_ count backwards by fifties, [e.g., 18550... 18500... etc.]. I don't know what that omission indicates.) So anyway, in article <19340@grebyn.com>, Roger Williams said: > 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. > : > : > I just tried this out and it worked for me. So I tried it out... and got identical results. (Hey, at least it's reproducable! :-) Anybody got any ideas? ---- William December Starr