Re: Scoring

Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:58:05 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Phil Crown wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Richard Steiner wrote:
> >On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Jeff Harris wrote:
> >
> >> I recall reading something about being able to "score" articles
> >> which have been widely crossposted. Could someone please tell
> >> me how this is done? What is the syntax? TIA!
> >
> >I use the following syntax in my global score file:
> >
> > -10 pattern Newsgroups: [^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,[^,]+,.*
>
> Does this kill *all* the cross-posts, or does it leave one copy for
> reading?

It marks all copies of excessive crossposts as being already read in all
newsgroups. If you always do a "Display Unread", you'll never see them.

Yarn already automagically handles the marking of a message as read in
other crossposted groups once you read it once (since I think it only
stores a single copy anyway).

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