Re: Request: ding subscribers' group parameter

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>]

On Aug  3, 2001, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> ("references"
>  ("<or[0-9a-z]+\.fsf\\(_-_\\)?@feijoada\\.lsd\\.ic\\.unicamp\\.br>"
>   200 nil r))

> Stick it in all.SCORE and you're all set.

> I've been using this technique for four or five years now at least.

Thanks, I've been using something very close to this for a few hours,
and I must admit it's far superior to the one that matches my e-mail
addresses in To: and Cc: "head"ers.  However, I've verified that it
doesn't work in two cases: (i) when the replier's MUA is too dumb to
set References: correctly (fortunately this is rare, but I do care
about e-mail I get from some of the people who choose to use such
broken MUAs) and (ii) it fails to highlight e-mail addressed to me in
my misc e-mail folder, which often helps me tell good e-mail from SPAM
that hides the addressees, which is the most common kind of SPAM in my
statistics.


Anyway, is there any reason why gnus doesn't offer "to" and "cc" as
score strings?  I would find this quite useful, and I don't understand
why it hasn't done before.  Is it just because To: and Cc: don't make
much sense for news?

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