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Chris Siebenmann | 15 Apr 2004 10:33
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Best way to read articles by only some posters in a given thread?

 Quite often when faced with a large thread, I find myself wanting to
read only the articles in it written by certain posters (ones prolific
enough to post in other threads as well, threads that I don't want to
read at the moment).

 Is there any efficient way to do this? So far the best way I have
found is to do '/Author/Hfrom:+', then narrow the view to only selected
threads with E, then manually unselect everything but the relevant
thread (which is tedious and possibly error-prone if there's a lot of
threads the person has posted in).

 Also tried:
	- select thread
	- ::M to vanish everything else
	- unselect thread
	- select specific authors, read
	- Y to get all the other articles back
... except that they come back selected, and I haven't found a good
way of unselecting them all again save leaving and reentering the
newsgroup (at which point the 'Y' becomes surplus).

 Any ideas? Many thanks in advance.

	- cks

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Wayne Davison | 16 Apr 2004 02:27

Re: Best way to read articles by only some posters in a given thread?

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:33:45AM -0500, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> I haven't found a good way of unselecting them all again save leaving
> and reentering the newsgroup

You should be able to run ":-" to deselect everything in a group.

Also, in your first scenario, after narrowing the view to the threads
with selected articles using 'E', you could try using '#' to read just
the current thread (ignoring all other selected threads) but I have a
feeling that it will cause the whole thread to become selected as a
side-effect, which is obviously not what you want (I didn't test this
to know for sure).

..wayne..

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David Combs | 23 Apr 2004 22:23
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Been a while since got a trn-workers email. Off listserve? How to get back on?

The subject says it all -- how to get back onto the
trn-workers listserve -- that is, if I'm off it.

Or maybe it's just quiescent these days/months(/years)?

David

PS: Also, where to find an archive of past trn-workers email?

PS: Just in case the trn-workers addr isn't enough,
I include the four on the CC-line...

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Wayne Davison | 23 Apr 2004 22:43

Re: Been a while since got a trn-workers email. Off listserve? How to get back on?

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:23:14PM -0400, David Combs wrote:
> The subject says it all -- how to get back onto the
> trn-workers listserve -- that is, if I'm off it.

You can check your subscription and view the archives via the web
interface.  Go to http://trn.sf.net and click on "Project", and then
"Mailing Lists".  There hasn't been much activity in a while, though.

..wayne..

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