Re: [Pan-users] Score file

[Duncan]

Tom Tanner posted on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 21:00:07 +0000 as excerpted:

> I've been trying to use the score file recently, and I must be reading
> the documentation wrong.
> 
> I'd have thought that a rule like this:
> 
> Score: 100
> Subject: \.this
> ~Subject: \.except.*\.this
> 
> Would score 100 for anything that matched the first and didn't match the
> second. Instead, it appears to be scoring 100 for pretty much anything.
> 
> Any help in using the scorefile would be appreciated.

You're not reading the docs incorrectly, but some months ago I did some 
testing and came to the conclusion that pan's AND scoring (which should 
be single colon after the score keyword) is broken -- it's treating 
EVERYTHING as OR scoring (which should be double-colon).

With that treated as an OR, indeed, that score will match nearly 
everything! =:^(


All my normal scoring rules are double-colon/OR, so I can't be sure when 
it broke, but I do believe it worked at one point some years ago.

But as zlynx already pointed out, as long as you're using incremental 
scoring (not =/absolute), it's reasonably easy to do what you want by 
configuring a second score with the narrower scope, to reverse the first.

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