From: Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 07:19:09 CDT
chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes:
> But I would like to hear further opinions on what typical killfiles
> actually do, because my own newsreader (nn) seems to do them completely
> differently from all others.
Gnus doesn't use killfiles actually, but score files. Score files
contain predicates which name a location and a string (which might
actually be a regexp), a match type, and a score (positive or
negative). When a group is entered, Gnus looks at the scoring rules
and fetches all the data required by these rules from the article
backend (which doesn't have to use NNTP). Gnus prefers an overview
database if it's present and fetches article headers or bodies only if
necessary. The scoring rules are then applied to every article, and
the individual scores are summed up.