Re: Scoring articles by ration of bytes/lines

Konrad Karl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to be able to score/filter/delete articles where
> the ration of article_bytes / article_lines is below a certain
> value.
> 
> Many sporged postings could be easily identified. With
> the old pan 1.x I have been using a simple perl filter program
> in oder to delete articles with a too low ratio and this simple
> approach worked surprisingly well - the algortithm might require some
> tweaking, e.g if number of lines < 10 then dont apply the
> ratio rule etc. etc.
> 
> Now I have started looking into the latest sources but I am
> afraid it will take considerable time until I will understand
> whats going on.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Greetings,
> Konrad

Hi Konrad,

This can be done in 0.120 by adding a scoring rule to ignore
all articles with a line count less than 10.
See Article > Add a Scoring Rule

cheers,
Charles