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From: sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: RN kill-filing of all but certain subjects
Message-ID: <7545@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 13:58:19 GMT
References: <1990Feb3.213343.27579@athena.mit.edu> <34108@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1990Feb4.191613.16386@athena.mit.edu> <19340@grebyn.com> <1990Feb6.032448.20062@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: sjm@sun.acs.udel.edu (Steve Morris)
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In article <1990Feb6.032448.20062@athena.mit.edu> wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr) writes:
>
>Our story so far:
>
[stuff deleted]
>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: 
>So I tried it out... and got identical results.
>Anybody got any ideas?
>


Well I don't have the solution but I do have an
explanation.

without a range it appears that RN will search the entire
list of messages available on your system.

That would explain why it uncovers your secret word
in old messages.
If your word appears in new messages and they are not
uncovered, I can't explain that.

Steve Morris
sjm@udel.edu