This is a scoring script that I use on some huge groups like alt.binaries.multimedia or alt.binaries.tv and it’s much quicker than using the interface. Pan is compatible with the PCRE “Perl Compatible Regular Expressions”.

Quick example :

$ score dead.like.me
ADDED :

[^alt\.binaries\.multimedia|alt\.binaries\.tv$]
Score: =-9999
Subject: dead.like.me.S\d\dE\d\d|dead.like.me.\dx\d\d|dead.like.me.\d\d\d

That way all the files called like “dead like me S01E22″ or “dead-like-me.1×11″ or “dead.like.me.104″ are scored -9999 and I can save some RAM by reading only the headers scored 0. I can also delete all the headers scored -9999 ( ignored ) all at the same time.

Here’s the “score” script to put in your /home/you/bin directory. The hardcoded things need to be changed ( path, group name )

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys

scorefile = “/home/you/News/Score”

group = “^alt\\.binaries\\.multimedia|alt\\.binaries\\.tv$”
arg = sys.argv[1]
score = arg+’.S\\d\\dE\\d\\d|’+arg+’.\\dx\\d\\d|’+arg+’.\\d\\d\\d’

f=open(scorefile, ‘a’)

f.write( “\n” + “[" + group + "]\n” )
f.write( “\t” + “Score: =-9999″ + “\n” )
f.write( “\t” + “Subject: ” + score + “\n\n” )
f.close

print “ADDED :”
print “\n” + “[" + group + "]“
print “\t” + “Score: =-9999″ + “” print “\t” + “Subject: ” + score