Re: filtering nntp messages

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22:37 -0500, Harry wrote:

>> ,----[ nntp+news.gmane.org:gmane.config.SCORE ]
>> | (("subject"
>> |   ("Cron <root@.*" -5000 nil r)
>> |   ("CVS update of .*" -5000 nil r)))
>> `----

[...]

> In your example above, It can't mean that both items must appear in the
> subject line... so apparently either appearing will do it.

Yes, each regular expression is matched against the subject and the
corresponding score is applied if it matches.

> If I wanted to have a rule that looked for `@[0-9]+\.com>' in From:
> line and any of sell|free|discount in the subject line:

I don't know that you can do that, unless you use Advanced Scoring (see
http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_277.html#SEC277 )

> I guess it would look like:
> ,----
> | (("from"
> |   ("@[0-9]+\\.com>" -100 nil r))
> |  ("subject"
> |   ("sale\\|free\\|discount" -100 nil r)))
> `----

There is no implicit AND between the different matches, so I would
expect the above to give articles only matching on from -100, articles
only matching subject -100, and articles matching both -200.

> ,----
> | (("from"
> |   ("@[0-9]+\\.com>" -100 nil r)))
> | (("subject"
> |   ("sale\\|free\\|discount" -100 nil r)))
> `----

That doesn't look valid to me - you seem to be making up your own
syntax. The manual clearly states:

  "A score file is an emacs-lisp file that normally contains just a single form."
   - http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_266.html#SEC266


  Best regards,

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