> >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?
Heh. Sure, now you throw Souper into it. :-) I don't know, to be
honest, 'cuz I don't use Souper. I was talking about Yarn scoring.
It would make sense to me that Souper scoring would actually exclude those
messages which failed the score criteria (resulting in them not being
downloaded at all), but I don't know. I'd have to defer to a Souper
user. I use uqwk.
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