Re: [Pan-users] Scoring on Message-ID & arbitrary headers

[Brad Sims]

On Friday 21 February 2003 06:31 pm, Charles Kerr wrote:
> I will eventually get to scoring/filtering on arbitrary headers,
> it's not a high priority.  This is a lot more expensive in newsreaders
> than in mailers, because instead of having the entire message like
> mailers do, Pan only has what XOVER gives us -- number, message-id,
> references, author, subject, lines, byte count, and usually xrefs.
> Anything else is going to cost you a round trip to the server, or
> a painfully slow search through cached articles.

Perhaps make it an option to turn on expensive scoring (IE arbitary 
headers). That way it would normally just use the XOVER, but
you would have the option to use expensive scoring if you really
wanted it . (hehe mabye a dialog pop-up "This /will/ slow things 
way the heck-down... I mean OE speed, buddy. Are ya sure ya
really wanna do this? [yes] [no]" )

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