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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Mike Dee wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:50:05 -0400, Ted S. wrote:
>>
>>> On 4 Aug 2007 20:48:39 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey. Cat got yer tongues? :)
>>>
>>> No; we just don't use Pan.
>>
>> Some of us do. Especially (generally stable except for in Blinky's case
>> now) good old stable non-C++ Pan.
>
> I just solved this. The answer is really bizarre.
>
> Pan shares slrn's score file. Pan recently just stopped scoring
> completely. I'd done no tweaking to configurations or files.
>
> Tonight I created an empty Score file and pointed Pan at it.
>
> Then, rule by rule, I copied my shared score file into the new clean one.
> The shared file was almost 700 lines long. First come my hand-rolled
> rules. They're followed by client-produced rules.
>
> Every time I'd add another rule from the shared score file to the new test
> file, Pan would score just fine.
>
> Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> Endlessly. :)
>
> When the *next to last rule* was pasted into the test file, Pan stopped
> scoring.
>
> I pulled that rule and moved the last one up into its position.
>
> Pan scored - and continues to score - just fine.
>
> I see NOTHING odd about the rule. It's a straitforward rule based on
> Subject:
>
> %BOS
> %Score created by slrn on Wed Aug 1 17:46:39 2007
>
> [ ]
> Score: -9999
> Expires: 8/31/2007
> Subject: Executive Privilege
> % From: Rôgêr
> % References:
> % Xref: uni-berlin\.de 24hoursupport\.helpdesk:1256899
> % Newsgroup: 24hoursupport\.helpdesk
> %EOS

I just looked at this paste of the rule in another client, and the
line breaks are all nutzy there, so it was all scrambled looking.
If it looks that way in your client, please know that it wasn't that
way in my Score file. It looked absolutely normal.

> It looks like every other client-generated rule.
>
> Solved. But replaced by a new puzzle. :)
>
>


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