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This article is from the rec.arts.tv.soaps FAQ, by Margaret D. Gibbs gibbsm@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
7. ANU news Information (rec.arts.tv.soaps)
Here's information on the killfile for ANU News on the VAX/VMS system:
To see what subjects/threads are already in your killfile, type SHOW KILL.
To kill a subject thread, type KILL. It will prompt you for a newsgroup;
hit return. It will add that subject to your killfile in a manner that
looks like this: (using "Pure Soap: Did you see it?" as an example)
TAG: 1
rec.arts.tv.soaps S:*Pure Soap: Did you see it?
The * means that any post with those words and ANYTHING before it will be
killed; that is how it gets rid of all of the RE: reply posts. To make
it so you can kill ALL "Pure Soap" articles, you would type MODIFY KILL 1
(or if the TAG is number 6, you would use MODIFY KILL 6). It then prompts
you to edit the kill:
newsgroup: rec.arts.tv.soaps (hit return)
Subject: *Pure Soap: Did you see it? (you edit this part)
What you do here is use delete or backspace to erase the line until it just
lists Pure Soap, then you add another * at the end, to kill ANY post relating
to Pure Soap: (To kill the subject header for all messages for one soap,
the kill filter will have to be edited down to *soapabbreviation*.)
Subject: *Pure Soap* (now when it looks like that you hit return)
It will also prompt for Header and From, but you won't really need those...
To effectively kill all of the articles tagged, you then type
READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP (or READ/NEW - tho sometimes this won't work for
filtering - I don't know why) when you want to read your messages. You
still will have the messages available on your account, but using
READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP will skip them and list them as having been read.
Try NumKey "0" for READ/NEW and NumKey "." for READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP
Got it? :)
If you decide you want to read the Pure Soap articles again, just type CLEAR
KILL 1 (or 6 or 37 or whatever) and when you READ/NEW/FOLLOWUP it will once
again read those articles for you. A separate kill tag must be set up for
each soap/subject that you want to kill.
For information on how to quote text, see section 22 in this FAQ.
Good luck!
[thanks to Kate, formerly of exodus.valpo.edu]
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