From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12336 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Kleinpaste Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: SPCs can hurt overviews (was Inexplicable all.SCORE analysis) Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:23:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035151890 3232 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:11:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:11:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23416 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 19:05:40 -0700 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA11918 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:59:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 03:24:19 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 7060 invoked by uid 504); 25 Sep 1997 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 7057 invoked from network); 25 Sep 1997 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: from pocari-sweat.jprc.com (207.86.147.217) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 25 Sep 1997 01:24:17 -0000 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by pocari-sweat.jprc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13820; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:23:46 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "25 Sep 1997 00:17:04 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:12336 The erroneously-scored articles previously mentioned contain a Lines: header which include trailing SPCs, e.g., "^Lines: 15 $". This confuses overview parsing, because the SPCs manage to survive into INN's overview files, and Gnus does not hunt down the next TAB properly. Looks like a user agent flaw, to start with; the articles in question claim an agent tag of QWK v2.12. Thereafter, it's INN's fault for letting trailing SPCs into the overviews, though one could argue that INN was doing the correct thing (copy blindly). And lastly, it's Gnus' mistake not to have hunted for the separating TAB properly. Please experiment by implementing an "xref" score rule such as ("xref" (".* .* .* .* .* .*" -10 nil r)) in all.SCORE and siccing it on <970923100046612@eqcity.ktb.net> in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains. (q 0.10, xemacs 19.14, inn 1.5.1.) regards, --karl