PMMail Announce List?

[Markus Greiling]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999 01:45:48 -0800 (PST), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:39:52 +0100 (CET), Markus Greiling wrote:
>
>>longer and that some people on this list would be better off using port 
>>194 instead of port 25/110.)
>
>I know 25 and 110, what's 194?

IRC

>>Mar - adding PMMail support for score files to the wishlist - kus 
>
>And what are score files?  :)

A refined form of filtering. Basic Idea (from the slrn manuals):

"slrn awards an article points by giving it a score.  If the score for 
the article is less than zero, the article is marked as read or killed.  
The purpose of the score file is to define the set of tests that an 
article must go through to determine the score.  Although the score may 
be based on ANY header item, it is recommended that one stick with the 
following for efficiency:

      * Subject
      * From
      * Xref
      * References
      * Lines

[...]
A group of keywords defines a test that is given to the header of the
article.  The `Score' keyword is used to assign a score to the header
if the header passes the test.  It also serves to delimit tests.  The
score can be any positive or negative integer.  However there are two
special values: 9999 and -9999.  If the score for an individual test
is one of these two values, any following tests are skipped and the
article is simply given one of the two special values.  If the
numerical value of the score is prefixed by an equal sign, score
processing for the header is stoped and the header will be given the
score for that test.

[... example: ...]

  [comp.os.linux.*]
     Score: -10
     Expires: 1/1/1996
     Subject: swap

     Score: 20
     Subject: SunOS

     Score: 50
     From: Linus

     % Kill all articles cross posted to an advocacy group
     Score: -9999
     Xref: advocacy
     ~From: Linus

     % This person I want nothing to do with unless he posts about
     % `gizmos' but only in comp.os.linux.development.*
     Score: -9999
     From: someone@who\.knows\.where
     ~Subject: gizmo
     ~Newsgroup: development

[...]

This [...] section is more complex.  It applies to the newsgroups
comp.os.linux newsgroups and consists of 5 tests.  The first three are
simple: -10 points are given if the subject contains `swap', 20 if it
contains SunOS, and 50 if the article is from someone named `Linus'.  
This means that if Bill@Somewhere writes an article whose subject is 
`Swap, Swap, Swap', the article is give -10 points.  However, if the 
Linus writes an article with the same title, it is given -10 + 50 = 40 
points.  Note that the first test expires at the beginning of 1996.

The fourth test kills all articles that were cross posted to an advocay
newsgroup UNLESS they were posted by Linus.  Note that if a keyword 
begins with the `~' character, the effect of the regular expression is 
reversed. 

The fifth test serves to filter out posts from someone@who.knows.where
unless he posts about `gizmos' in one of the comp.os.development 
newsgroups. Again note the `~' character."

HTH

Regards,

Markus
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