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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@kleinpaste.org> writes:
> David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
>> It depends on the scoring you do. If you score against the whole head or
>> even the body, scoring becomes incredibly slow since Gnus has to request
>> the head/body, resp.
>
> For those who have reasonable access to your news admins, and if your
> server runs INN of any recent vintage, you can do away with most needs
> for 'body" search using keywords.

You are right.

My general assessment "scoring is slow" is not correct. It's not the
actual scoring that is slow, but only the retrieval of additional
header/body information from the article, which however can often be
avoided as you describe.

-David