How to apply kill filters

Rimsky · Post by **Rimsky** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:44 am

I've managed to create a kill filter, but how do I apply it?
I'm trying to switch from NP to UE and looking for new ways to do familiar things.

Cees Cappelle

Gary Gnews · Post by **Gary Gnews** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:28 am

Make sure that the filter is made available as a kill filter in filter editor, then go to Edit->Properties->Kill Filters and apply the filter to your folders/groups of choice. If you want it to apply to all groups, simply apply it to the "newsgroups" entry at the top of the list.

Hope this helps!

Rimsky · Post by **Rimsky** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:38 am

That's what I did. I created a kill filter which contains .jpg as Predicate - subject contains. When I open the group, Properties, Select killfilter, Add and do Apply, or even OK, the *.jpg messages remain visible in the group and are not deleted. What am I doing wrong?
In newspro I used to do Ctrl-S, type in the expression and press the delete button. Is there a similar/better way to do this in UE?

Hubert · Post by **Hubert** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:44 pm

AFAIK, kill filters are only applied on new headers as they are downloaded. That's why you see nothing happening immediately after activating the filter.

Rimsky · Post by **Rimsky** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:05 pm

Oooooohkay, so I'm looking for something that isn't there?

Hubert · Post by **Hubert** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:16 pm

I think so. But of course you can use the same filter as a view filter and then manually delete the corresponding headers. You would only have to do this once though; the kill filter will take care of the new headers.