🚀 go-pugleaf

All over the place deja-q@access.digex.com (Lin Yon Q) writes:
 > [whatever was posted about] on the net is prohibited.

Maybe it's meant to be humor, but it's gotten annoying.
(And it's not confined to dc.general, but it's worst here.)

Paraphrased from wdstarr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William December Starr):

> A Quick and Dirty Guide to RN KILL Files
> ========================================
>
> (1) Real quick and dirty
> ------------------------
>
> All you _really_ need to know is this:
>
>	/Lin Yon Q/:j
>
> in your KILL file will kill any article with
> "Lin Yon Q" _anywhere_ in its _subject line_, and
>
>	/Lin Yon Q/h:j
>
> in your KILL file will kill any article with "Lin Yon Q" _anywhere_ in
> its _header_ (useful for automatically blowing away articles posted by
> people you don't like).  Note: for RN to do this, it has to pre-read
> the entire header of every article, not just the subject lines.  This
> takes more time.  How much more depends on the speed of your system.
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Brent Chivers		McLean, VA		bchivers@mitre.org