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Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
> lbudney@pobox.com writes:
>>>>
>>> This is exactly what "followup" does, <info://gnus/Score+File+Format>:
>>
>> Thanks--missed that. What if I want to kill grandparents, as well?
[note: s/grandparents/grandchildren/]
>
> Isn't that what "followup" does?  It scores down all children,
> gandchildren etc.

I can't tell from the docs; they suggest that "followup" applies only
to followup articles. Does that mean articles with a matching article
in the "in-reply-to" header?

Anyway, it looks like you can nail children using "followup", and you
can kinda sorta nail all descendents using "thread" (which keys on the
"references" header), but I don't see a straightforward way to nail
certain articles, their children, and their grandchildren.

Thanks for the replies so far; I'm still looking for more suggestions
if anyone has some.

Regards,
Len.