I’ve got a shared score file for both slrnpull and slrn. I expect
that nothing below 0 points should be downloaded, and I run slrnpull
with the --kill-score 0 flag.

However, some messages still seem to "slip through" this filter,
and only get scored when I open them in slrn. For example, I might
see that there are 5 unread messages in a group, but after entering
the group (pressing enter), the counter resets. I’m assuming that
slrn is loading the score rules at that point.

My conclusion is that slrnpull has some kind of simplified scoring
mechanism, but I’d like to know exactly what the difference is between
the two in terms of scoring.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

My slrn and slrnpull versions are both 1.0.3.

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On 2025-05-14, Kacper Docin <altvalidator@pm.me> wrote:

I’ve got a shared score file for both slrnpull and slrn. I expect
that nothing below 0 points should be downloaded, and I run slrnpull
with the --kill-score 0 flag.

However, some messages still seem to "slip through" this filter,
and only get scored when I open them in slrn. For example, I might
see that there are 5 unread messages in a group, but after entering
the group (pressing enter), the counter resets. I’m assuming that
slrn is loading the score rules at that point.

My conclusion is that slrnpull has some kind of simplified scoring
mechanism, but I’d like to know exactly what the difference is between
the two in terms of scoring.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

My slrn and slrnpull versions are both 1.0.3.

You can enter a newsgroup using the ESC-1-K
key command in SLRN to see what messages are
not being caught by the slrnpull program.

It can be a error in the syntax for the filter.

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Keith wrote:

On 2025-05-14, Kacper Docin <altvalidator@pm.me> wrote:

[...]

My conclusion is that slrnpull has some kind of simplified scoring
mechanism, but I’d like to know exactly what the difference is between
the two in terms of scoring.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

My slrn and slrnpull versions are both 1.0.3.

You can enter a newsgroup using the ESC-1-K
key command in SLRN to see what messages are
not being caught by the slrnpull program.

It can be a error in the syntax for the filter.

long time since i used slrnpull the last time, but that shouldn't be the
case. i had a symlink to slrn's score file as slrnpull's, not to write
rules twice.

there might be a bug or a non-alignment on the two programs (if i have
to guess, i'd say encoding(?))

or

score file acts on headers not offered by the remote newsserver on
XOVER, thus slrnpull isn't able to filter, while slrn locally does

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