Kurt Schilling posted on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:46:02 -0400 as excerpted: > Yes, NSR is still alive. The newsgroup tends to be relatively active on > a day to day basis. However, the regulars tend to be pretty much > "anti-PAN" since the re-write to C++ primarily because of the lack of > granular scoring.
?? Granularity indicates grains, division into discreet quantities, as opposed to unitary or continuously divisible. (A more modern description might be digital, as opposed to analog.) I don't really see how that can be accurately said of pan's scoring, since it indeed has effective scoring granularity in units of one from -9999 to +9999. Pan certainly has scoring related deficiencies, deficiencies, including as has been discussed here many times, the ability to do anything practical with scores (automatic delete/mark-read/ download based on score, presumably ignore/negative/watch, respectively, by default), and the ability to score at all based on the body or whole message (scoring based on non-overview headers was added by khaley fairly recently, but there's no GUI for it; it's only possible vie direct scorefile editing), but those deficiencies wouldn't appear to relate to scoring granularity in any way that I can figure. There's /way/ more flexibility in that regard than people are ever likely to use, in practice. -- 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 https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
