[Pan-users] Re: Score not firing...

[Duncan]

Mark Derricutt posted <address@hidden>,
excerpted below,  on Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:02:30 +1200:

> 'llo - I have the following score setup in my Score file, but for some
> reason it's not triggering:
> 
> [gmane\.linux\.redhat\..*]
> Score: =5001
> %Expires: 
>       Subject: .*
> %     From: ^"Bill Nottingham" <address@hidden>$
> %     References: <address@hidden>
> %     Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.linux.redhat.rhl.beta:4151
> %EOS
> 
> In theory this should work, but doesn't seem to be...  mmm

You don't say what you are trying to accomplish, but from my reading of
the scoring, the only thing not commented out (by the leading %) is the
subject, which is entirely wildcarded.  IOW, if it worked, it would score
**ALL** posts to the group with ANY subject header AT ALL as EXACTLY 5001
points, which seems a bit pointless.

If that's not what you are trying to do, then perhaps that's why it isn't
working.  Perhaps an explanation of what you are attempting is in order.
If it is, I can't say why it isn't working, but perhaps an explanation of
why you might want to do such a thing might be helpful, since I don't
quite fathom the logic of scoring **ALL** posts the same.

IOW, some explanation of what you are attempting and why is in order, in
any case, since I can't quite reason out why one would wish to do what
that appears to do, and can't deduce what else you might have in mind from
it.

(Note that I'm fairly new to scoring myself, but am getting stronger in
regular expressions, since both perl, which I am attempting to learn, and
virtually everything else doing text search or search and replace on
Linux, including PAN's scoring as here, uses regexps to some degree or
another. Thus, take my attempt at help for what you think it's worth..<g>)

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