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From: Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Kill-Filing
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:16:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3odbxpvp5.fsf@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.5811.1199694310.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>

Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:

> 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

Thanks Daniel! But that resulted in the lucky person having a "Y"
annotation in the summary buffer, but still is listed. I want him to not
even be listed in the summary buffer at all.
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%% Fuquay-Varina, NC            %  you still wander the fields of your
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-07 14:16 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 ` Kill-Filing Daniel Pittman
     [not found] ` <mailman.5811.1199694310.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2008-01-07 14:16   ` Randy Yates [this message]
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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