xref scoring problems

xref scoring problems

[Yair Friedman]

Finally I've manged to convinced our isp news admin to uncomment the
famous xref line so I figured i can use xref header scoring.  However
I encounter with this oddity. my rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE look like
this:


(("xref"
  ("alt.fan.heinlein" -6000 nil s))
 ("subject"
  .....
  ("Heinlein" 5000 nil s)
  .....
 )
 (mark-and-expunge -10))

At the summary I saw an article that I thought was supposed to be
low scored.  I  did Vt and got this line:

("Heinlein" 5000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE

But after I read the article I got this from Vt:

("alt.fan.heinlein" -6000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE
("Heinlein" 5000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE


telneting directly to the server give me this information:


XOVER 20065
224 data follows
20065   Re: Heinlein and Relativity     Del Cotter
<del@branta.demon.co.uk>    Mon, 20 May 1996 22:36:46 +0100
<EeJfgPAuXOoxEw9M@branta.demon.co.uk>   <4m4132$lf6@barad-dur.nas.com>
<joelr.3233.0014217C@winternet.com>      1511    16     Xref:
news.somewhere.il rec.arts.sf.written:20065 rec.arts.sf.misc:891
alt.fan.heinlein:3252
.

What am I missing?

(This is with 5.2.1 & 19.30 not the copy I'm using to send this).

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Re: xref scoring problems

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Yair Friedman <yair@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:

> ("Heinlein" 5000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE
> 
> But after I read the article I got this from Vt:
> 
> ("alt.fan.heinlein" -6000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE
> ("Heinlein" 5000 nil s)  ->  rec.arts.sf.written.SCORE

This is typical behavior when the Xref header isn't included in the
NOV files.

> telneting directly to the server give me this information:
> 
> XOVER 20065

And this was the article that you got those results on?  In that case,
I can't explain the behavior.  However, if it was an older article,
then it probably just means that the article arrived before the
"Xref:full" line was added to the overview.fmt file.  (Doing so
just changes things for articles that arrive after the change.)

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