Scoring msg size riddle

[Andreas Schamanek]

Hi everyone,

Could someone enlighten me as to why

:0
* 100^2 > 2000
{ LOG="> 2000 score = $= $NL" }

gives a score of 17 for a message of 830 bytes,
and 124 for a message of 2233 (sizes according to LOGABSTRACT).

I wonder if I misunderstood something essential or whether there's a
bug in the code (where I haven't looked yet) or its documentation.

[David W. Tamkin]

Andreas,

Post by Andreas Schamanek
Could someone enlighten me as to why
:0
* 100^2 > 2000
{ LOG="> 2000 score = $= $NL" }
gives a score of 17 for a message of 830 bytes,
and 124 for a message of 2233 (sizes according to LOGABSTRACT).

That's correct. See the procmailsc(5) manual page. A weighted
greater-than condition scores W×(M/L)^X. {A weighted less-than condition
scores W×(L/M)^X.] You hve W=100, X=2, L=2000, and greater-than. So when
M=830, 100×(830/2000)^2 = 17.2225; when M=2233, 100×(2233/2000)^2 =
124.657225. The $= variable rounds down to the whole integer.

Post by Andreas Schamanek
I wonder if I misunderstood something essential or whether there's a
bug in the code (where I haven't looked yet) or its documentation.

The code is working as promised.

Now, the real question: what were you expecting? What results were you
trying to get?

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