Re: Happy kill files

[Jeff Burka <jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>]

Michael Graham writes:
>I thought that the kill file looks only at the subject line, not the entire 
>body of the message - I am pretty sure of this. 

Sorry, but you're wrong.  I believe the correct command would be
"/happy/a:j" to get rid of anything with 'happy' in the entire body.  And
I believe that "/happy/h:j" will get rid of anything with 'happy' in the
entire header. I may have the commands slightly wrong (I don't maintain
any kill files, thought I've used them on occasion over the years), but I
do know it's possible.  Slow and drastic, but possible.

>This may be a viable solution
>to those of us reading the newsgroup, but for those who get the digest
>it isn't.

a) Mike Mendelsohn already offered his SED scripts for dividing up the
digest.

b) I'm pretty sure the 'mh' unix mail handler can explode digests into
seperate chunks; don't any of the other mailers on various systems?

Jeff
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