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>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:

> Well, I think this is just what adaptive word scoring will get you.
> If you don't read articles with "TWA 800" in the subjects, the words
> "TWA" and "800" will get their scores lowered.  

Not "800", no (at least, no such numbers is in rec.aviation.military.ADAPT)

> If the words you want to score on contain "-", you should modify the
> syntax entry for that character to be word-consituent:

> (setq gnus-adaptive-word-syntax-table 
>       (copy-syntax-table (standard-syntax-table)))
> (modify-syntax-entry ?- "w" gnus-adaptive-word-syntax-table)

> (By the way, by default, numbers are considered to be white space when
> doing word scoring.)

Yup!  I'll look into changing it, and what effects it would have.