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On Thursday, in article <852239604snz@dsl.co.uk>
     bhk@dsl.co.uk "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" wrote:

> In article <852168906snz@tsys.demon.co.uk> tw104@york.ac.uk "Tom Wheeley"
>  writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I've never downloaded overkill either; so far as I could tell, overkill
> goes through the newsbase *after* KA9Q has pulled down headers or
> headers+bodies (as dictated by the present killfile), and removes those
> articles for which only headers have been fetched; hence it is of no use
> to me for the situation where some of my killfile processing is to
> prevent the premature downloading of long articles (where I later go back
> and GET the bodies, so I *need* the headers to be kept) and also my
> projected use where I have no desire to see hide nor hair (and hence
> neither body *nor* header) of articles from known spammers, such as 
>    Organization: Posters Ltd

Yes, I just read the readme for overkill -- it's more of a hack than I
thought (no offence to the developer).

I don't know how KA9Q operates exactly, but I suspect the best way would be
to modify it to bin completely articles with headers matching entries in the
killfile prefixed with something like '+'.

To go the `additional utility' route would involve serious fiddling with
overkill (if source available) to make it check the headers before binning
them, and then of course you'd have fun amalgamating the information into
a single KILL file that an unmodified KA9Q could read...

> It's because of this limitation of the present scheme of KA9Q's killfile,
> with or without overkill, that I proposed some extension to the syntax
> and the behaviour of the NNTP client.

Hmm, as above :)

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