From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44463 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Don't grok manual: scoring Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:17:48 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020082748 15041 127.0.0.1 (29 Apr 2002 12:19:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 172A7X-0003uQ-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:19:07 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 172A6b-0006eu-00; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:18:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA25019 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:18:12 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 19818 invoked by alias); 29 Apr 2002 12:17:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19813 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2002 12:17:50 -0000 Original-Received: from mesquite.slip.cs.cmu.edu (HELO cinnamon.vanillaknot.com) (128.2.207.11) by gnus.org with SMTP; 29 Apr 2002 12:17:50 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by cinnamon.vanillaknot.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3TCHmd27294; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:17:48 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "8-CgoYhiD_O!#(F%E=..0>QA_#WDy+]_XoAr)L]`-zjAc\d+nsFXq`=v_# =pVh#sP*K~j,0k9N}`E7jX"5+U?4/UIF1EE X-Face: "5(T0tZd{6}pd~YzBG8O/*EW,.]6]@`m^e;fv65W^Y&=d"M\1H}>T~4_.kcDD.O~y3k)a6 hR;Nmi>9|>Nm${2IpM0^RcUEa\jcq?KOP)C&~x51l~zCHTulL^_T|u0I^kB'z@]{`2YjQu In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Mon, 29 Apr 2002 11:46:18 +0200") Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, i686-pc-linux) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44463 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44463 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