Re: scoring based on a number of matches

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

>> * Eric Abrahamsen <revp@revpnoenunzfra.arg> [2019-07-09 10:45:39 -0700]:
>>
>> Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> I want to down-score articles with many all-upper case words in the
>>> subject.
>>> Ideally, I would like a "multiplier", e.g.:
>>
>> Not the answer you wanted, but it sounds like you're asking Gnus to play
>> the role of a Bayesian spam filter a la spamassassin or rspamd.
>
> This is for a bona fide comp.lang.lisp newsgoups. Cannot do that.

Yeah, that wasn't terribly helpful advice.

> However, the following works for me now:
>
> (("subject"
>   ("[^a-z]\\{40\\}" -100 nil R)
>   ("[^a-z]\\{100\\}" -300 nil R)
>   ("[^a-z]\\{150\\}" -1000 nil R)
>   ))
>
> (note `R` instead of `r`!)

Glad you sorted it out! I'm still impressed Gnus can be a Bayesian
filter if you try.