Re: Yrndl (YarnDial) users who also use VSoup

From: Hardy Griech (rgriech@swol.de)
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 21:37:40 +0100

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997 10:00:36 -0400, jlevy@ibm.net (Jerry Levy) wrote:
:
> VSoup over Souper: please note that Hardy Griech has obsoleted the "lines"
> commands in VSoup (-l or -L), which set a maximum allowable article
> length for retrieving news articles.
:

Oops, one'll never know, what the implications of 'small' changes in
the command line options will be...

For the people who don't like reading documentation (which of course
they should) here is a small summary of the lines-syntax:

- Limitation of article length is now part of scoring which is
introduced in VSoup1.2.8 (as Jery is also pointing out)

- this means, one can set article length limits for newsgroups
individually:

- globally, one has to add the following lines to the %HOME%\score
file:

#
# kill articles longer than 800 lines
#
all {
-1 lines > 800
}

- locally, for a specific newsgroup, e.g.. alt.binaries... one'd
like to allow article lenghts up to 2000 lines, one has to add
the following to the scoring file:

alt.binaries.* {
1 lines > 800
-1 lines > 2000
}

(Not tested, but that should do the trick. It also shows an
advantage of scoring over killing: an article does not have only
one chance...)

Hardy

PS to Jery: I hope that those missing -l/-L options in 1.2.8 made you
too much trouble! Thanks for your clarifications.

-- 
Hardy Griech, Ernetstr. 10/1, D-77933 Lahr
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