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           noone@llondel.demon.co.uk
           "Reply address in.sig" <noone@llondel.demon.co.uk>
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> Having just reviewed my killfile with a view to speeding things up, it 
> occurred to me that because most of the lines begin with 'Newsgroups:', 
> 'From:' and 'Subject:', it might be possible to tweak the relevant bit 
> of NNTPCLI.C to handle these, along with a 'misc' section.

Dave,

I think that you might make a slight improvement with your suggested
approach, but that's not my reason for responding.

What I would like to see done with the killfile processing for KA9Q (and
KA9Q/2, which is the one *I* use:-))) is some means of indicating one of
*three* things:
    1) download only the headers of an article that matches this
    criterion
    2) regardless of any other indication, download the full body of a
    article
    3) don't even bother to download (well, don't bother to keep) the
    headers even of an article that matches this criterion
    
The existing killfile does (1), and (2) is effectuated by the "!" keep
flag.  I know that someone has a program that sweeps through the newsbase
removing articles that have matched (1), and hence this can implement
(3); however, there *are* articles for which I want to read the headers,
and then decide whether to use GET to fetch the bodies, so I *need*
option (1), and yet there are criteria that I can create (such as From
the esteemed Hawaiian doctor) where I don't even want to bother to have
to skip over the headers in my newsbase.

So AISI, there's kill, keep, and *really* kill.  Can anyone else suggest
a sensible system of indicating these three whilst retaining a single
killfile?

Incidentally, I think that if an article is rejected (and its headers not
kept) under scenario (3) above, the nos.log should show both the
newsgroups and the message-ID, so that a manual collection is still
possible at a later date.  But it certainly doesn't warrant including the
full headers in the newsbatch file, and later into the newsbase.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
                Tony Blair's New Labour: The Windows'95 of Political Parties
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