Wayne Davison <trn@clari.net>, Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>

> I have a local killfile for news.answers, which is 772 lines long. It seems
> that two or three patterns in the killfile are ignored each time that I
> read news.answers (I read it once per day, usually). Exactly which
> patterns is different each time, but the result is that I must (K)ill
> that subject again, producing a duplicate entry in news/answers/KILL.
> I use sort and uniq on the killfile to help me identify and delete those
> duplicate entries. This on a Sun running SunOS Release 4.1.3_U1.
> Is this a known bug that's been fixed in later releases?

[Davison:]
I've never heard of this problem before.  Using 'K' to deposit the kill
commands in the killfile puts a fairly specific version of the subject
into the kill file -- are you sure that the subjects aren't changing
slightly, maybe in spacing or something minor so that the kill commands
look similar but aren't quite the same?

One thing you might do is to modify your kill file to make it more
generic on the subjects you want to kill.  Another option is to switch
to using "Tj" (if you are using trn 3.5) to kill the subjects by thread
instead of subject.  This is useful if you're trying to weed out all the
stuff you're not interested in in news.answers because the thread-kill
commands automatically expire after the discussion dies.

[Virden:]
What COULD be done is to split the kills up between all the smaller
*.answer groups so that no kill file is so large.  After you get done
doing all the comp.answers, rec.answers , etc. then you can go into
news.answers and see what is left.

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