Re: Killfile

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
>
>> and I still get posts from [email protected] posted to some.news.group.
>> 
>> What now?
>
> This is from memory as my TIN session is busy at the moment and I can't try 
> this to double check it.  I'm sorry if I mis-remember this.
>
> With one of the messages you want to kill highlighted, hit ^k which will 
> bring up the kill "menu".  It's a data entry screen, not a menu, but 
> anyway...
>
> Hit enter twice to skip the first two entry fields, or add a comment to the 
> comment field if you prefer.  Following those two fields are three yes/no 
> fields listing the subject, author, and message id.  The subject defaults to 
> yes, the other two default to no.  Type an n beside the subject field and a y 
> beside the author field.  Hit enter to skip through the rest of the fields 
> until you get the message on the status line saying TIN is filtering.  Once 
> it's through filtering, you should be returned to your article list with all 
> the messages from the author you choose killed.

That's how I generated the entry I quoted. I think I never quite 
understood what happens in this 'data entry screen' and thus I now 
prefer to manually edit ~/.tinrc/filter .

Thanks,
Niklaus