System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Tue Oct 4 11:49:14 AEST 1988


In article <433 at gonzo.UUCP> daveb at gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
: In <6638 at orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> kramer at bionette.UUCP (Jack Kramer - CMBL) writes:
: >>I would like to continue reading this group but all the clutter takes
: >>up too much time.  Is there any way to filter out messages from
: >>particular persons such as Henry Spencer.
: 
: Though the pounding has started already, consider the possiblity he
: means a "positive" filter as opposed to a kill-file style negative
: filter.  That is, he *only* wants to read articles from Henry or Chris
: or Doug or dmr.  At least, that's what I thought he meant.  I've wanted
: one too...

Add something like the following line to your kill file:

/^/%(%f!=henry at utzoo|chris at mimsy?j)

If that doesn't work, it ought to.

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov



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