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Mike Yetto wrote:
> While walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
> Stephen! wrote...
>
>> Blinky the Shark < @ > wrote in
>> news:slrnfb44gj.cjq. @ :
>>
>>> But he claims that the four rules he pasted here are his
>>> only rules.
>> If
>>> so, there isn't anything there to cause accumulation of a
>>> 9999+ score.
>>
>> Okay.. okay... Here is everything from the
>> file... Still
>> nothing in there that matches *any* of the incorrectly
>> scored posts...
>>
>> % score file for Xnews
>> % read for instruction
>>
>> [^rec\.motorcycles$]
>>
>> Score:: 9999
>> From: Stephen\!
>>
>> Score:: 9999
>> Subject: NART
>>
>> % generated by Xnews on Sun 22 May 2005 06:14:50p
>> Score:: -9999
>> From: "bu\$h"
>>
>> % generated by Xnews on Sun 22 May 2005 06:14:50p
>> Score:: -9999
>> From: "Henry"
>>
>>
>
> My latest thought (or at least one of them) is that this isn't
> the score file that Xnews is loading. Change the values to
> something else and see what happens.
>
> Mike "my guess is... nothing" Yetto

It's the best thought I've seen on this problem, Mike. *I* certainly
hope you nailed it, here.

I'd suggest he comment out *all* the lines and see what happens.

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