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Scoring
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   The BBDB can provide scoring information to Gnus in one of two ways.

  1. Articles whose authors appear in the BBDB and who have
     `gnus-score' fields will have their scores adjusted by the value
     contained in that field.

  2. Articles whose authors appear in the BBDB but who do not have
     `gnus-score' fields will have their scores adjusted by
     `bbdb/gnus-score-default'.  If `bbdb/gnus-score-default' is `nil',
     no score adjustment will be made.

   The BBDB by default searches the field contained in
`bbdb/gnus-score-field' for score values.  To have the BBDB use a
different field, change the value of this variable.

   To enable BBDB-assisted scoring, add the `bbdb/gnus-score' function
to `gnus-score-find-score-files-function'.  Assuming that you want to
preserve the default value of this variable, use a form similar to the
following:

     (setq gnus-score-find-score-files-function
           '(gnus-score-find-bnews bbdb/gnus-score))

   Note: The default value in Gnus 5.5 is `gnus-score-find-bnews'.
Check your configuration before using the above code, as your values may
be different.