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On Tue, 31 Dec 96 21:17:25 GMT, in article
     <852067045snz@dsl.co.uk> bhk@dsl.co.uk
     "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

> 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?

Well I never downloaded it but isn't there a program `overkill' which does
the _really_ kill option?  I think it works on your current KILL file, but
with a bit of creativity I'm sure you could persuade it to work on a
diffferent KILL file.  If you did fancy things with AWK or something you
could probably get it all to run from a single file.

Just remember that you're not allowed to run make_get at the moment! (see d.a)

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