Re: Scoring oddities

[Harald Meland <Harald.Meland@usit.uio.no>]

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

| I have not been able to reproduce it.  Could y'all check around a bit
| and report back to this list any anomalies and stuff?

Not sure this problem is related, but I had some troubles getting the
"advanced scoring" stuff to work.

Reading the postmaster mail here kinda takes a lot of time with all
the (malformed, and therefore rejected) spam, so I thought I'd score
down the most frequently encountered candidates (as I believe there is
no way of splitting mail into different groups on body content).
After some testing, I arrived at this score file:

((mark -100)
 ((and ("subject" "Postmaster notify: User unknown" E)
       (or ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:<\\([^@]*\\|.*@[^.]+\\)>$" r)
	   ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:.*\\.\\(com\\|edu\\|net\\|org\\|web\\)>$" r)
	   (not ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:" r))))
  -200))

However, the articles that should have been hit, weren't (neither by
"V S" nor "V t").  After adding a dummy rule to the score file, like
this:

((mark -100)
 ((and ("subject" "Postmaster notify: User unknown" E)
       (or ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:<\\([^@]*\\|.*@[^.]+\\)>$" r)
	   ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:.*\\.\\(com\\|edu\\|net\\|org\\|web\\)>$" r)
	   (not ("body" "^>>> MAIL From:" r))))
  -200)
 ("subject" ("Postmaster notify: User unknown" 0 nil E)))

, flushing the score cache ("V F"), quitting the mail group with "Q"
and then re-entering, the articles were scored as they should be (both
according to "V S" and "V t").

I've tested this again while writing this, and it seems like most
times "V F" and "V R" is enough to get the articles rescored with the
updated score file -- however, sometimes "V F", "Q" and re-entering is
needed.  I see no pattern behind this.
-- 
Harald