Rule and Score Processing Order

When Gravity retrieves headers, processing takes place as follows:

1.   The headers are downloaded from your news server.

2.   Gravity checks to see if scoring needs to be applied to this newsgroup, and if so, applies the values.  It does this by examining all of the groups (possibly wildcard expressions) in the list of groups to be scored, and if the newsgroup matches, then the scores are evaluated.  Any scores that have expired are also removed during this phase.

3.   Gravity then runs any rules that are enabled for the newsgroup. Rules are processed in the order they appear in the Rules Dialog.
Score processing occurs before rule processing, meaning that you can use a score condition in rules for incoming articles (the score is calculated first).