Re: OffGnus

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>]

Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> writes:

> Up to this point we agree.  What I want is an additional check on the
> length of the article, after the first round of scoring is performed.
> If the article is bigger than some length, regardless of score, it
> should not be automatically downloaded.

No, if you don't want long articles, then you just lower the score of
the long articles.

> I do not want "your" 1284-line article scored low; but I neither do I
> want to automatically download it, because I am on a 14.4Kb modem link.
> I do want it to appear in its "proper" place in the summary buffer.

The download scores are orthogonal to the display scores.  If you want
them to be.  They'll probably be most useful accumulative, so that you
basically add a download score file to the normal score files when
downloading. 

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