score file questions

Claus Thoegersen (cltrar@login.dknet.dk)
Sat, 28 Sep 1996 09:44:17 -0100

Hi,

Today I have again looked a little on the possibility of using score
files in yarn, dos version 088. I have setup aa score file for one
group and it seems to work, that means in the /home/yarn/score
directory I have a file that contains the score rules I have set up.

I suppose that the scorings only is checked with new mail-news
packages, but I would like to be able to have my existing newsbase
scored according to my new rules, is it possible? When I enter
strings they contain words not exact phrases, I suppose that the
system works so that when ever the word in a string is encountered
the message will be marked. I would like to know a little bit more
about how to use the regular expressions. If you can score a file
whenever a word is matched, why then regular expressions? Finally I
would like to be sure that the rule is actually used, something like
a message after import saying that in all or certain newsgroups
articles has been scored rejected or whatever, so you can check that
the scoring actually work the way they are intented to.

Regards,

Claus