Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:55:12 +0000:
> Am I missing the option to make scores which are good across groups, > servers? Must it be done by hand? I don't believe servers make a difference at all. pan's scoring is entirely server transparent, it ignores it. As for groups, there are several methods to make a score apply without regard to groups using the scoring GUI. One is setting the group qualifier dropdown to "contains", and simply putting a single "." in the corresponding textbox, since groups generally contain at least one dot. Another, related but negated way, would be to set either "does not contain" or "isn't", and put ".." in the textbox, since the dot functions as a separator and therefore should not appear twice in a row. That said, I'd really recommend taking the time to learn how to edit the scorefile by hand. Among other reasons, the pan entries contain huge amounts of cruft and aren't that efficient. When I edited mine to remove the newsgroup regex stuff that old-pan took but new-pan doesn't, I reduced over a hundred scores to less than ten (compound) scores, in two sections, according to pan's log of the startup scorefile parsing, in addition to removing the many unnecessary lines of comments and blank lines pan adds for each operational line it creates. (I generally keep the created time comment for expiring scores, but add some of my own comments on occasion.) For illustration's sake and as I had posted it before on request, so folks evidently find it useful, here's an abridged copy of my scorefile, including comment lines briefly describing the format, and URLs to the more formal documentation. It should give you an idea of how clean yet simple the file can be. (Certain addresses masked for public posting, and the actual file is somewhat longer than this.) As you can see, I've used %### comment lines to set off sections (mine, not what pan calls sections), with expiring stuff in its own section, and a double delimiter line at the end, below which will be anything pan has added before I've edited it into its appropriate section by hand. % PAN scorefile % Very close to SLRN's format at % http://www.slrn.org/docs/score.txt % but with case insensitivity (not other differences) from % xnews at http://xnews.remarqs.net/scoring.txt % [newsgroup.*] wildcard (not regex) format (~ negates). % header lines regex. (~ negates). % Score conditions, single : and, double :: or. % Expires: immed. below score if present. % Leading % indicates comment % Leading whitespace and blank lines ignored. % Regex and newsgroup matches case insensitive with % keyword:, sensitive with keyword=. % Newsgroup change delimits section, % Score delimits "rule", multiple rules per section allowed. % Comment after score becomes rule "name". % Score levels: <=-9999 kill, -9998 to -1 low, % 0, 1 - 4999 med, 5000 - 9998 high, >=9999 watch %######################################################################### %######################################################################### [alt.*] Score:: =-9999 %Alt kill From: sex coed From: NudeGirls From: voyeur only From: amateur From: SEXmag From: teens From: intermixed From: rectal Subject: adult movies Subject: dupped Subject: ^\([-0-9/]*\) Subject: Use critical pack from Microsoft Corporation Subject: R/-\\PE Subject: R/-\|PE %######################################################################### %######################################################################### [cox.*] Score:: =9999 %Cox Watched (Cox employee) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ From: ^Jay Munsterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ From: ^Steven Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ From: CoxTech1 From: ^David Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ Score:: 100 %Cox Med From: ^Howard Christeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ From: ^Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ Score:: 5000 %Cox Hi From: ^Lenroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ Score:: =-9999 %Cox Kill (repeat-kill) From: ^"John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ From: John Shocked From: You Got Punked\, Bitch From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> %######################################################################### %Score created by Pan on Thu Apr 26 01:59:31 2007 Score:: =-9999 Expires: 10/29/2007 From: ^"snake plisken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>$ %######################################################################### %######################################################################### -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
