Re: [leafnode-list] 'Hooking' in to do serious scoring on downloads

[Mike Graham <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 August 2002 04:59 am, you wrote:

> Does the filterfile help you?  

  It might... I'm not familiar with Perl, but if there was an example 
filterfile somewhere, I'd give it a whirl.

> If not, I'm pretty reluctant to
> encourage hooking into fetchnews because of the possible maintaining
> nightmare caused by incompatible add-ons.  

  I was thinking of something along the line of it downloading messages 
to in.coming, then giving you an opportunity to run something, then 
moving them to where they need to be.  That way the onus is on the user 
to do something intelligent with them, and there's no compatability 
issue.  The messages are just sitting there in the native format.  So 
if I wanted to put certain messages in 'deep storage' then I could copy 
them somewhere automatically, I could have interactive filtering if I 
wanted, or filtering based on searching the *body* of the message, not 
just the header.  That would be sweet.  AOL screws up my scoring 
because of their miserable piss-rotten reference trimming, so any time 
an AOLer sticks their nose into a thread I'm watching or killing, I'm 
screwed.

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