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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.

9. Cleveland Freenet information (rec.arts.tv.soaps)

This is information gathered from some of the Cleveland Freenet users,
who do not have killfiles. If you're on a different Freenet, these
hints may or may not work for you. For information on how to quote text,
see section 22 in this FAQ.

There is a "File Kill" area at the top of Usenet News (where you
chose Usenet News (read)), but that only kills messages from a
person's ID that you don't wish to read, not a subject. However,
after reading a post, at the prompt you can type "k" and it will
put "R" in front of all older posts that you're not interested in,
marking them as read. You can pull up headers and choose what you
want to read. "-" goes to the previous screen, and "+" pulls up
the next screen.

Here's an example of how to read the posts for one soap (GH):
Find the first GH post, type in the number, and read it. Then you
can either answer it or hit "s" (search) to read all articles in
the same thread. When you're told that there aren't any related
posts left, hit "k" to kill all the GH posts you read plus all
posts older than that. No other KILL works. Then you must hit
either the next number or "+" to go to the next page.

If you have been reading all of the posts in a thread, and are
tired of reading that thread and don't want to read any more
postings for the same thread, press "z" (for "zap#.) This will
mark all of the rest of the postings in this thread as having
been read, and will return you to the first posting of the thread.
(Word of warning!!! this can cause the access to usenet to abort
in Youngstown Freenet, but it works fine in Cleveland Freenet)

Here's another method someone on the Cleveland Freenet uses:
If you type in a slash key, that is the command for search. You
will be prompted for a search string, and then you will be able to
read a post matching that string. From then on in, you type
<slash> <return>, then <return> again (the search string you put
in before stays as current search string). SO if you want to read
AMC posts, you would type "/ <CR>" then "AMC <CR>". Then read
the post, or type "/ <CR> <CR>" to go to the next one. Then when
you are done you can type z to zap up to the current post as read.

(Thanks to Dan Galvin, Beverly Harris, Rick Kitchen, and Brenda
Matlin)

 

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