On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 05:56:15PM -0800, Nick Andriash wrote:
> Steve also described what Agent had (which I mistakenly thought was
> scoring), and although I find that meets my needs at present, true
> "Scoring" sure does sound interesting. I might try X-News just to see for
> myself, and compare it to what Agent does.
Just two things I wanted to add about scoring.
1: Gravity also has scoring. Of the two, XNews and Gravity, I think Gravity
it is easier to configure scoring for the neophytes out there. XNews takes a
more traditional approach to the score file.
2: It does take a while to get into scoring. When I was first introduced to
the concept I didn't think it would be of much value. It took me a good month
or two of using SLRN to develop my own feel of how scoring would help on news
reading. At one point in PMMail's development I advocated scoring for email,
especially mailing lists, but have yet to decide on a decent way to implement
it independant of email filters. the reason I say they should be independant
is because of my avocation of using a standard set of regex filters to catch
mailing list mail. Hard to put a specific score on a general filter. ;)
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