Scoring is a method to give articles a score based on user-
defined rules. The idea behind this is to give articles with a
high score a higher priority while articles with a low score
(less than zero) are marked as read. When entering a group, all
articles are given a score of ``0''. Then the list of scoring
rules, the ``scorefile'', is applied to each article. The
scorefile might give articles from ``John Doe'' a higher score,
while articles with the word ``Gnus'' in their subjects get a
negative score. More than one rule may apply cumulatively to the
same article. In the end, threads with high-score articles
appear at the top of your screen and can be read before other,
possibly less interesting, articles. slrn has no killfile, but
the same effect can be achieved with its scorefile. Assigning a
particularly low score will do the trick:
[news.software.readers] Score: =-9999 % I'm not interested in
articles on gnus Subject: gnusIn this example, all articles in
news.software.readers that have the substring ``gn