Re: Want Filter in BNR

--- In [email protected], "lawandorder49" <lawrence_k_tse@...> wrote:
> I am a newbie and I want to understand how the want filter works.  I 
> thought the filter will mark the articles I am interested as
> "wanted" but when I try to do that, it does not seem to work at all.  
> 
> Say, if I want to mark all the articles which has a subject line 
> contains the word "Computer", I can go under Options and then 
> Kill/Want.  Under the Want filters tab, create a new filter by 
> unchecking the Author and Filename (Headers this filter matches) and 
> put the word "Computer" under the RegEx box.  (Groups is any).  When
> I apply the filter, nothing is being marked as wanted (with a
> default color of "green").  (Even though there are articles with a
> subject line containing the word "Computer").  I also try to set up
> the want filter by clicking the article itself and updating the
> RegEx box but it still does not work.  Am I missing some steps here ?
>  Any help is appreciated.

The Want filters are applied to the headers as you download them, so
you would have had to create the "Computer" filter before you
downloaded the headers.  To do a search for existing articles
containing the word "Computer", you can type that word into the
QuickFilter box on the toolbar of any group.



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