Re: Filtering USNET on client side (Thunderbird)

On 06 Sep 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article
<slrnfe0ucr.33l.curty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Curt wrote:

On 2007-09-06, Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The values can be set as absolute

Score: =-9999

which says set this score, and I'm finished scoring on this article, OR
they can be relative scores

Score: -9999
Score: +9999

which says to subtract or add 9999 to the existing score for this
article, AND continue looking through the rest of the scores to see if
others should be added/subtracted/set. All articles _start_ with a
score of '0'.

Well, I don't score on articles at all;

Actually, you do. The scoring function is invoked each time you access
a new (or previously read) newsgroup. It runs through the various group
lists and headers it finds in your score file, and rates each article
before displaying the available article list.

I have two score files because I read off-line. The score file in
/var/spool/slrnpull/ is used by that program to determine whether or
not to download the article to the local spool. Any article that winds
up with a score less than zero is not downloaded. There is also a
score file in my user directories, and that score may mark files up or
down effecting how they are displayed in slrn.

I just score on authors

[compton ~]$ grep -vE '^([%\[ ]|Score|$)' /var/spool/slrnpull/score |
cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | column
896 From: 7 Message-ID: 79 Xref:
2 Lines: 282 Subject: 2 ~Subject:
[compton ~]$ sed 's/^ *//' score | grep -vE '^([%\[ ]|Score|$)' | cut
-d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq -c | column
1 Mail-To-News-Contact: 1 User-Agent:
71 NNTP-Posting-Host: 1 X-Anonymous:
4 Organization: 4 X-Complaints-To:
10 References: 1 X-Mail2News-Contact:
1 Reply-To: 3 ~Subject:
[compton ~]$

I score very much on the From: line, but some Subjects are of no
interest to me. I also use a lot of regular expressions to try to
keep the score file under 32k.

Actually, the text part of those ads seemed to be different for each
article, although I suppose few people even noticed that.

Few people bother to score on content, and I don't know of any common
news reader that can.

I think I might be the only person to have read each and every one of
them in their entirety. >:->

I try to at least scan 84 newsgroups every day, which is anywhere from
500 to 1500 articles. I don't have time to read many articles (which is
why RFC1855 and the various FAQs recommend choosing a good subject when
you post) - certainly not the articles that are obviously of little
interest to me.

To tell the truth, I like a good troll once in a while;

Good trolls are quite rare - though in fact I did see one 2-3 days ago
in one of the news.admin.net-abuse.* newsgroups. There used to be one
who would occasionally post to comp.security.firewalls, but I've not
seen any posts from that troll in 3-4 years. The rest of the trolls
are usually just a waste of bandwidth even downloading their headers.

We're all human, right?

Nope - I'm a network administrator ;-)

Old guy
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