Subject: Please Help: Killfile?

From: Jim Harris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 11:35:15 -0400

Is anyone aware of a feature on PINE that will allow a user
	to create a "killfile", a file which automatically deletes,
	for example, messages that are crossposted to more than such-
	and-such-a-number of newsgroups, or from a particular person?

	I am using Unix Pine 3.92.

	Thanks,

	Mike

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From: [email-masked] (Conrad Sabatier)
Date: 7 Jul 1996 16:21:03 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
>	and-such-a-number of newsgroups, or from a particular person?

You should take a look at trn, rn, nn, slrn, strn.  All have an excellent,
very flexible killfile facility.

Pine is great for mail, but I don't care for it as a newsreader.  There
are much better tools available for that purpose.

BTW, I use trn myself, and make extensive use of the killfile.  You can
select patterns in *any* field in an article's header, making it easy to
kill crossposts, and even *references* to people you don't like.

trn also has the advantage over Pine in that it does true article
threading, making it easy to follow the flow of a discussion.

Try it!  You'll like it!

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads