Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 21:56:45 -0700

  This is how one can automatically kill crossposted articles, etc.

  First, manually either add the following to your .newsrc to mark all
  articles read forever:

	alt.flame: 1-2147483647

  or add the following to your .nn/kill file to kill all articles in
  the group:

	alt.flame:!s/:^

  The former method may break down if you ever use nngoback to reset
  numbers in your .newsrc.  The latter method could cause difficulty
  if you ever actually want to read articles in that group.

  Near the top of your sequence in your init file put

	!alt.flame.
	alt.flame

  This makes alt.flame, but not its subgroups, be included as the first
  thing in your sequence; so all articles in it are killed before they
  appear in any other groups.  You might want to put NEW above this so
  you can see if new groups are getting off to a bad start with lots of
  alt.flame crossposting.  Later in the sequence put

	% alt %

  This allows the rest of the alt hierarchy, including subgroups such
  as alt.flame.spelling (if you subscribe to it), to get included at
  that point in the sequence.

  Along with using the default settings of cross-filter-seq=true and
  cross-post=false, this works fine to nuke the crossposted articles.


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