Re: Feature question/request
Ian Hastie (ianh@spuddy.mew.co.uk)
Sun, 23 Jun 1996 15:40:32 +0100
In article <199606211803.LAA19155@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
Mark L Beckman <mbeckman@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>
> Nothing like a new version to make people want more.
> But seriously the new threading feature is GREAT.
> Is there a way to "prescore" 1 or more news groups other than going into
> yarn in interactive mode and opening the group(s). In other words is there
> a command line option to score a newsgroup (or groups) and exit.
> Background:
> I subscribe to the "...JOBS" groups which get several thousand messages per
> day. I also have a (complex) set of scoring rules to weed out the jobs I
> could care less about. Opening this group with 5000 new messages can take
> a LONG time. However I import my packets via a batch program while I sleep.
> It would be nice to get a little more sleep and have the newsgroups scored
> in the process.
Presumably this would be best done in the import program. That way it
would be possible to avoid having to re-read the articles. It would
then only be necessary for Yarn to score newsgroups if the score file
was changed. It'd certainly be a nice feature and would save a *lot* of
time.
Ian.
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