Don't grok manual: scoring

Don't grok manual: scoring

[Kai Großjohann]

In the "Score File Format" node, it talks about the fourth element in
a list, and there it says:

         "Extra"
               Just as for the standard string overview headers, if you
               are using gnus-extra-headers, you can score on these
               headers' values.  In this case, there is a 5th element
               in the score entry, being the name of the header to be
               scored.  The following entry is useful in your
               `all.SCORE' file in case of spam attacks from a single
               origin host, if your NNTP server tracks
               NNTP-Posting-Host in overviews:

                    ("111.222.333.444" -1000 nil s "NNTP-Posting-Host")

Before, it was said that the fourth element should be a symbol.
Here, it is the symbol `s'.  But what does that have to do with the
"Extra" heading of this paragraph?

Hm.

Maybe it should say explicitly there that this paragraph isn't really
about the fourth item in the list at all, instead it's about the
fifth item.  Whee.  Hm.  Quite confusing.

kai
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Re: Don't grok manual: scoring

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> In the "Score File Format" node, it talks about the fourth element in
> a list, and there it says:
...
> Before, it was said that the fourth element should be a symbol.
> Here, it is the symbol `s'.  But what does that have to do with the
> "Extra" heading of this paragraph?

I believe you are misreading the section.

"Extra" is another class of scoring, just as "Lines, Chars" is
different (and a separate paragraph) from "From, Subject, References,
Xref, Message-ID".

The discussion of the 4th element describes the dependency upon what
is being scored, so that scoring can distinguish what types are
available (`<' and `>' for lines & chars; s/r/e for simple string
content, before/after for dates, and so forth).  The placement of the
"Extra" section under "From, Subject, References, Xref, Message-ID"
was because extra headers' scoring is essentially just like those
standard ones, which uses s/r/e scoring.  The difference lies only in
the addition of the new 5th element, to specify which extra header is
to be scored.

> Maybe it should say explicitly there that this paragraph isn't really
> about the fourth item in the list at all, instead it's about the
> fifth item.  Whee.  Hm.  Quite confusing.

Sorry if confusion has been caused.  It is indeed about the 4th
element, as the beginning of item 4 indicates, where it discusses the
"type element" (s r e < > before after etc).

--karl

Re: Don't grok manual: scoring

[Robin S. Socha]

* Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> The discussion of the 4th element [...]

Okay. So which version of Gnus will ship with Milla Jovovich?