Hello Thomas,
Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 12:37:59 AM, you wrote:
> And here is the stupid question: what is "scoring"?
Not a stupid question. I just discovered it when I downloaded Xnews
today. It is a way of ranking messages in a newsgroup based upon very
fancy filters. I don't claim to understand it completely, but you can
add and subtract scores based on the presence or absence of strings.
It seems pretty robust since you can filter out all messages over
10000 lines say, but then if one of them meets some other criteria
(eg, posted by your favourite novelist), it can be ranked higher, but
still low priority. I'm not doing it complete justice, but I just got
the program and have only used it for a half hour or so... :)
Off Topic Question:
Does anyone using Xnews know if and how you can download messages to
read off-line?
Thanks.
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