Filtering on Supersedes header #feedbase #nntp #gnus
Recently the question about how to
filter
(score) on the Supersedes: header when reading news via
NNTP
in Gnus was raised.
This is especially relevant on Feedbase,
where updates to RSS/Atom entries are recorded as new
articles that supersede previous ones.
If you don't care about updates, down-scoring articles with
Supersedes: is a nice solution.
Newsreaders, such as Gnus, can only do that effectively on the fields returned by the XOVER command in NNTP, so while somebody figured out how to do it by making Gnus fetch headers for all articles, it was slow.
The LIST
OVERVIEW.FMT
command in NNTP gives a list of the fields returned by XOVER, so I
thought
an easy solution would be to just add Supersedes: to that list, and
to the output of XOVER.
After having done that, I still wasn't able to get Gnus to score on the new field.
Tracing through the Emacs lisp code with M-x edebug-defun didn't
make me any
wiser
to the problem, it looked like it was comparing with "nil" rather than
the value I knew XOVER was returning.
The next day I tried tracing some more, and finally realized that I was missing the name of the header in the information I added to XOVER!
After fixing that, this scoring rule worked as expected:
(("extra" ("." -1000 nil r "Supersedes")))
\o/
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