Kill-Filing

Kill-Filing

[Randy Yates]

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.).
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Re: Kill-Filing

[Daniel Pittman]

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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Re: Kill-Filing

[Randy Yates]

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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Re: Kill-Filing

[Randy Yates]

Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes:

> 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.

PS: This is "No Gnus v0.7"
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Re: Kill-Filing

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:19:41 -0500, Randy wrote:

> 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.).

I've set this in my .gnus:

 ; Scoring, don't show the lowest of the low:
 (setq gnus-summary-expunge-below -9999)

And in my ~/News/all.SCORE I have (among other things):

 (
  ("from"
   ("someone@stupid.example.com (I Don't Want To Read)" -10000 nil e)
 )

That puts them completely out of eyesight. The people I don't want to
read but still want listed I just score -5000, for fun.


  Best regards,

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                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk

Re: Kill-Filing

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:13:22 +0100, Adam wrote:

>  (
>   ("from"
>    ("someone@stupid.example.com (I Don't Want To Read)" -10000 nil e)
>  )

(Supply missing parens yourself...)

  (Sorry)),

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