On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:43:06 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> The problem is that as implemented, pan only scores on the usual > "overview" headers, that is, the headers available before the post is > actually downloaded, which generally amounts to the ones displayed in > the header pane, subject, author, date, references (so proper threading > can be done), message-id, xref (cross-posting), lines and bytes ..., > that's pretty much it. If the poster is varying all of those, you're > SOL. Organization, x-newsreader, x-trace, path, x-complaints-to, etc, > are unavailable for scoring. Too bad. > Due to the address munging gmane (Gateway for Mail And NEws, what I use > to read the list) does to anything looking like an email address on this > list, I can't check so very easily, but it's possible you may be able to > figure out an element in the references you can score -- provided you > want to score replies to him as well, or maybe the message-id (tho I'm > not positive you can score on that but I /think/ someone reported that > you can, you'd have to try manually adding it to the the scorefile to > see). > > The other alternatives are using another news client (with proper > scoring) for that group, running your own local news server, leafnode or > the like, locally, or just continuing to cope with it manually. > > Or, of course, if you have the talent or significant financial > resources, you can either code up a patch, or sponsor someone (Charles > maybe) to code the requisite functionality for you. I think I might try a different client. Any suggestions? -Thufir _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
