gnus: Fuzzy Matching
9.15 Fuzzy Matching
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Gnus provides “fuzzy matching” of ‘Subject’ lines when doing things like
scoring, thread gathering and thread comparison.
As opposed to regular expression matching, fuzzy matching is very
fuzzy. It’s so fuzzy that there’s not even a definition of what
“fuzziness” means, and the implementation has changed over time.
Basically, it tries to remove all noise from lines before comparing.
‘Re: ’, parenthetical remarks, white space, and so on, are filtered out
of the strings before comparing the results. This often leads to
adequate results—even when faced with strings generated by text manglers
masquerading as newsreaders.
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