Re: [Pan-devel] Scoring update & screenshot

[Duncan]

On Thu 20 Feb 2003 12:56, Charles Kerr posted as excerpted below:
> Here's a screenshot of how Pan's scoring is shaping up:
>
>         http://pan.rebelbase.com/scoring.png

From the page..  I notice PAN's still limited in what headers or content it 
can score on.  Obviously, revising the scoring method and code can and should 
be separated from adding additional flexibility in exactly WHAT can be 
filtered/scored, but the latter is what interests me more than scoring itself 
(as opposed to simple binary value filtering).

Is that also on the slate for relatively soon inclusion, probably after 
scoring is added and proven to be working, or is that still "bluesky"?

I **DO** appreciate scoring, even on the currently limited header selection, 
no doubt about it.  I'd just be a bit more interested in a binary choice 
method of killing based on, say, posting host, that's more likely to be 
server controlled rather than user controlled, and thus less likely to be 
easily changable than author and subject lines...

I DID notice references in there as a scoring criteria, which makes handling 
entire threads nice and easy.  That's pretty cool, especially with scoring 
rather than binary filtering, because I always hesitate to kill entire 
threads, for fear of missing something good.  =:^)  The flexibility of 
scoring, however, would make that a far easier option.

-- 
Duncan
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