Re: Scoring

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Tue, 03 Sep 1996 11:45:30 -0500

>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).

So now that souper uses a score file, the cross-posts will not be
downloaded, correct?

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