trn and KILL files

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2 total messages Started by Rheal Nadeau Fri, 09 Oct 1992 16:11

Author: Rheal Nadeau
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 16:11

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I am trying to do something a bit weird with trn and KILL files, and
it isn't working.

A while back, I realized I was spending way too much time in Usenet
(too much time?  There ain't no such thing! :-) ), so I grounded
myself for a week, then started reading again with a much smaller
set of subscribed new groups.  One of the groups I dropped was
can.politics - a group I much enjoy, but it is time-consuming.

Yesterday I realized I could get most of the benefits of the group,
without spending so much time, by reading only posts by those
regulars I most enjoy.  So I wrote a KILL file, as follows:

   THRU nnnnn
   /^/j
   /From: user1/h:m
   /From: user2/h:m
   /From: user3/h:m

where "nnnnn" is one less than the smallest active article number.
Except for the "h", this is the same as the example in the man
page, to read only newgroup messages in the control newsgroup.

When I entered the group, it junked all articles (any way to do
this silently, btw?), then started processing the "user1" pattern
and went off into limbo.  After about 10 minutes, I hit control-C,
and got the response that the search was interrupted at article
mmmm (where mmmm << nnnnn!).  What gives?  Why isn't the THRU value
being used for ALL patterns in the kill file?

In the meantime, can.politics is unsubscribed, and I kind of miss
it . . .  :-)

The Rhealist - Rheal Nadeau - nadeau@bnr.ca - Speaking only for myself

Re: trn and KILL files

Author: Diane MacMartin
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 22:14

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Rheal,

I don't know why your file isn't working as you describe, but I
have a more efficient method, I think, to accomplish the same
thing.

Mark the articles you want to read as M (mark as read until you
exit the group), then use c to catchup - the remaining articles will not
be marked read one-by-one but will be done in bulk.  The articles
that you marked will then be Yanked back as unread.

I've never tried this method from a kill file, but I use it all
the time from command line mode.

-- 
Diane MacMartin       Bell-Northern Research, Ltd     Ottawa, Canada
mdm@bnr.ca            Any opinions are my own and do not represent BNR.
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