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From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Kill-Filing
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:12:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxxaqfct.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fxxak0du.fsf@ieee.org>

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

> How do you kill-file someone efficiently? I read that there
> is a kill-file mechanism but it's slow, and that the efficient
> way to do it is via scoring, but I couldn't find a description of
> how to use scoring to kill someone (a usenet news author, e.g.).

  L a s t
  L a s p

They are 'L'ower 'a'uthor 's'ubstring 't'emporary (or 'p'ermenant), and
take immediate effect.

'I' is also useful to have the opposite effect, scoring someone up.

Regards,
        Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 23:19 Kill-Filing Randy Yates
2008-01-07  7:12 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.5811.1199694310.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-01-07 14:16   ` Kill-Filing Randy Yates
2008-01-07 15:38     ` Kill-Filing Randy Yates
2008-01-07 18:13 ` Kill-Filing Adam Sjøgren
2008-01-07 18:21   ` Kill-Filing Adam Sjøgren

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