Re: [XPN] weird anomaly

Nemesis wrote:

> [XPN on win98]
<G>

>> Scoring on Xpost ; What is the syntax used for this?
>
> In the xpn.html file there are several examples.
> You have to use it like a number, for instance:
>
> =-1000 Xpost %>3

Ah, thank you (I had not noticed the xpn.html file also).

> will set the score to -1000 for those article posted on more than 3
> groups.
>
>> Also why no scoring on Newsgroups headers? Or will this be included in
>> future releases.
>
> Ths "Newsgroups" header is not served through XOVER¹ (the nntp command I
> use to retrieve headers) so it's available only when you download the
> body. Different newsreaders act in different ways, i.e. Xnews and slrn
> will use an XHDR¹ command for every non-XOVER header plus the XOVER for
> the standard headers, of course that cause an increased bandwidth
> usage. Dialog instead will apply the rule only when the body is
> available, of course if you want to use such a rule to prevent the
> download of the body (with a !kill action) this method is useless.
>
> I haven't decided yet wich solution I'll implement.

I hope you will decide on the "increased bandwidth" path. XDHR is
essential for me in some NGs I frequent :-P

> ¹XOVER retrieves the headers From, Subject, Date, Message-Id,
> References, Lines and Xref for a range of articles.
>
> ²XHDR retrieves one header for a range of articles.

Thank you for the information here.

--
dee
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