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From: jwm@stda.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: can rn kill articles offline?
Keywords: rn, kill
Message-ID: <3322@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 89 14:44:51 GMT
References: <542@telesoft.com>
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Reply-To: jwm@aplvax.UUCP (Jim Meritt)
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In article <542@telesoft.com> garym@telesoft.com (Gary Morris @nova) writes:
}I recently learned how to use kill files and in some cases have kill files
}that junk all articles then mark just the ones I want to see.  The only
}problem is that this is quite slow.  Is there any way to force rn to process
}the kill files, say from a script set to run early in the morning? 

I use:
........................................................................
/bin/rm /usr/jwm/killed
echo "~s rrn KILLed list" > /usr/jwm/killed
rnkill -d >> /usr/jwm/killed
/usr/ucb/mail jwm@stdc   $RNMACRO
if test X$1 = X-d; then
      echo "z" | rn
else
      echo "z" | rn >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
rm $RNMACRO
exit 0

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Since my kill files not only kills articles, but looks for things that I
have deamed interesting (like my name, for instance, in any article) and
lists the article number and subject of those articles.  While it takes
a long time for the process to cycle through, I can read what it mails
me in less than a minute.


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