[Pan-users] Re: Scoring a random set of articles?

[Duncan]

Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:02:11 -0500 as excerpted:

> Is there any way to manually set the score of articles that I've
> highlighted?

Not really.  Scoring works on scoring conditions.  Unless you can define a 
satisfactory scoring condition that applies to all those articles as a 
group, and that isn't overbroad, applying to articles NOT in that group, 
no.

However, as I've posted before, the scorefile format is actually quite 
flexible, with the PAN GUI not really doing it justice.  Editing it 
directly, combining all the GUI-added scores you've added over the years 
and removing old, expired ones, can not only seriously optimize the 
application of those scores (and the readability of the scorefile), but 
allows enough flexibility that you'd be surprised at how much you can 
actually do with what's there, and how concise and efficient the result 
can end up being.  Eventually your need to constantly fiddle with scoring 
to get the desired result goes down dramatically, as it's all pretty much 
handled automatically, with occasional exceptions as spamming methods (and 
obfuscated keywords) change, or for new temporary non-spam blocks, watch-
threads, etc.   And permanent additions become trivial to add and maintain 
along with the previous ones, too.

Having just finished one on a different list/group, I'm not in the mood 
for one of my multi-hundred-line replies, so I'll simply refer you to 
earlier posts I've made to the list on the subject.

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