From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 10:33:11 CDT
In <87pue1gojm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>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.
But how do you specify the name of the header in which you want to find
(or not find) the string to be scored? Is that done with the regexp, or is
it done by a separate mechanism which automatically does it case
insensitievly?
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