[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: X-news alteration for header scoring

[Tim P.]

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Bert Hyman <bert at visi.com> wrote in
news:Xns961791C6191DCVeebleFetzer at news.cesmail.net:

> In news:Xns96179070E1763dwvbo91q4001sneakema at 216.154.195.61 Tim P
> <dwvbo91q4001 at sneakemail.com> wrote: 
> 
>> "indigo" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in
>> news:d0vhb2$spl$1 at news.spamcop.net: 
>> 
>>> Bert Hyman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> The headers that Xnews scores on are those that are included in
>>>> the overview records that Xnews retrieves when it gets the list
>>>> of unread articles for a group, so the retrieval is essentially
>>>> free. 
>>>>
>>>> You can hand-edit the Xnews scorefile (score.ini) and add other
>>>> headers to a scoring entry. However, if you do that, Xnews will
>>>> have to send an XHDR request to the server for the extra header
>>>> fields you want to filter on, which can take a LONG time on
>>>> some servers.
>> 
>> The server gives me all the overview records that go with a
>> posting  so that is not a problem.
> 
> If you want to filter on a header that's not in the overview
> record, then it is a problem. 
> 
>>> 
>>> Sounds like Xnews ain't exactly the panacea to the troll that
>>> was flooding these groups lately as some folks were espousing,
>>> eh? 
>> 
>> Yes, and no.  Someone in a group posted their X-News scorefile 
>> section, which contained headers that are supposedly ignored by X-
>> News.  When I tried to use those to score and filter on, it did
>> not  work.  
> 
> It's possible that the server you're talking to does not implement
> the XHDR command which Xnews needs to filter on headers that aren't
> in the overview. 
> 
> You're also using an old version of Xnews which might not implement
> the feature at all. 
> 
> Go to http://xnews.newsguy.com/test and take the latest "test"
> version.  
> 

Thanks, 
That did the filtering just fine.


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