Re: Souper95 scoring question (kill all posts by author)
walt moffett (walt@scott.net)
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 19:33:53 -0500
cthulhu@usa.net (Cthulhu) wrote:
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>On an article posted to yarn.list on Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:38:15 -0500,
>walt@scott.net (walt moffett) wrote thusly about
>"Re: Souper95 scoring question (kill all posts by author)":
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> [Snip!]
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>>Another thought is to kill on the xref: line especially if "john" has
>>a "home newsgroup" or one that he includes in all posts.
>>
>>such as
>>
>>-1 xref: alt.test
>>
>>Most of the truly obnoxious on usenet have such groups.
>
> This is a good idea. . .but why not kill from the NNTP-Posting-Host? A
> line that reads something like:
>
> -1 pattern NNTP-Posting-Host: .*whatever.com if domain name
>
> -1 pattern NNTP-Posting-Host: xxx.xxx.yyyy if ip number
>
> would probably work. Usually xxx.xxx are static numbers, but yyy can
> change depending on which PPP server the person connected.
>
> Most ISPs include the above mentioned header. . .check by pressing 'v'
> when reading his message, and look for the line in the headers area.
>
>Cthulhu
>- --
>Resistance is useless.
> -- Doctor Who
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Mainly speed, anything not in the XOVER database souper has to do a
head command score it then snarf the article if it scores acceptibly.
As a way of coping with floods and the like it does work and I have
used it that way.
Another thing to consider is that UUCP sites and some other software
do not insert a NNTPetc header in the article.
However in the yarn either global or newsgroup score file it is highly
practical and is used by me.
A good thing to try is score based on the references: which has
the effect of scoring every article posted by @kook.site and the
followups or at least it works for me.
However, scoring is like stew making, you have to decide for your self
if the flavor is enhanced with possum liver or not.
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