OK, we e getting near the end of the file now–whats this about “killfiles” that you promised to tell us about?
Most newsreaders have a provision for “killing” messages; that is, marking them as read before you get to them, so your newsreader then skips over them automatically instead of showing them to you. I’m going to discuss how to do this in rn and its derivatives (trn, etc.) but most other newsreaders should have similar capabilities (though the command syntax won’t necessarily be identical). Topics are the easiest things to kill, as you need only type the ‘k’ key and all subsequent messages with that topic will be marked as read; you can also kill things in more complex ways by typing in a “regular expression” followed by “:j”, telling the newsreader to “junk” (mark as read) all the articles that match that regular expression. Remember, you still can read the messages that have been marked as read if you want to, either by typing in the message number or by using the ‘N’ and ‘P’ commands to move to the next and previous messages rather than the ‘n’ and ‘p’ commands. A regular expression n
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