Greetings:

Can someone who is more Xnews savvy than I explain how to kill a thread?

Three guesses as to which thread I wish to kill...

Thanks.

--
Catherine
& Zoe the cockerchow
& Queenie the black gold retriever
& Rosalie the calico

ceb wrote in news:Xns96E46A23BE069ceb4vvirginiaedu@
128.143.2.66:

Greetings:

Can someone who is more Xnews savvy than I explain how to kill a thread?

Three guesses as to which thread I wish to kill...


Open the thread and click on the first article in the thread.

Artcile - Add to Score File - Kill entire thread (it is in presets on the
bottom)

Depending on how long the thread gets, you might have to repeat it.

Other ways include killing crosposting based on the group that it is being
crossposted to. For example, in the thread that I have killfiled, I would
kill all crossposts to

alt.terrorism.world-trade-center
alt.obituaries
us.military.national-guard
rec.photo.digital

I am unlikely to ever read anything in any one of those forums, so any
posts that come from there are likely to be so much useless noise to me.

To killfile on the crossposts
Article - Add to Score file -
Once there, unselect all of the buttons except for XRef. Pick the group
that you want to kill off of, and then go to the top and select the Kill
radio button.

Viola!!
--
Marcel and Moogli
http://mudbunny.blogspot.com/

Marcel Beaudoin wrote in
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Viola!!


Viola indeed! Thank you so much, Marcel.

--
Catherine
& Zoe the cockerchow
& Queenie the black gold retriever
& Rosalie the calico

ceb wrote in news:Xns96E46A23BE069ceb4vvirginiaedu@
128.143.2.66:

Greetings:

Can someone who is more Xnews savvy than I explain how to kill a
thread?

Three guesses as to which thread I wish to kill...

Best way to figure out the score.ini fill is to use "Article..Add to
score file" then open it in notepad or your favorite text editor.
Although it is helpful to learn regular expressions (they are quite
daunting when you first encounter them), you only need to know a few
things:
[^(rec|alt)\..*\.dogs?\.] covers all of the standard dog related
newsgroups. You don't need to know what it means, just use it for the dog
scoring section.
"|" (shift backslash) means "or"
e.g.
Sco: -9999
Subject: Amazing|AnimalBehavior|...
From: Amazing|Animal|Behavior|...
any post with any of the words in the "or"d list will be filtered out
when you open the newsgroup

\s is space or you can just type a space
animal\sbehavior = animal behavior

? means it doesn't have to be there
animal\s?behavior
so...
Sco: -9999
Subject: Amazing|animal\s?behavior|...

^ means beginning of line
^OT:

Of course the problem with this is that every time DB changes his From:
name, you may have to add a word. If I posted my whole list here, it
would just clue him to change it.

Maybe it is more complicated than I thought. Regular expressions are fun
tho if you are inclined. The XNews manual has a brief but adequate
introduction.