From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3946 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Blachowicz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Those groups levels again Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:06:55 -0800 Message-ID: <199511132306.PAA12238@block.statsci.com> References: Reply-To: scott@statsci.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144763 28057 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA14134 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:51:23 -0800 Original-Received: from block.statsci.com (block.statsci.com [198.145.127.26]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:07:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by block.statsci.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA12238; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:06:56 -0800 Original-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) In-reply-to: Your message of "13 Nov 1995 23:48:34 +0100." Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3946 larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) wrote: > And that is possible by combining levels and scores. (New Gnuspeak > word -- "rank". The rank of a group is defined as a combination of > the level and the score.) Perhaps a revised glossary of the terms "level", "score" and "rank" as they apply to Group buffers is in order? My original thought was that "level" in this context refers to the accessibility of the server for that group because it is used to decide whether or not the initial Group buffer queries the server for number of unread messages on that group. I think of "score" as being a measure of my current interest in the contents of the item being scored. It seems (to me) to be orthogonal to the concept of "level" in the group buffer. It also seems (to me) to be very similar to the concept of scoring in the summary buffer - it just uses different attributes of the items being scored to decide on the score. Having the "score" of the group rise as a function of the number of entries into that group strikes me as very close conceptually to adaptive scoring in the summary buffers. And threads in summary buffers seem very close to "topics" in group buffers...has anyone written that hierarchical object browser mode for emacs yet? Just subclass off of that for a group buffer or for a summary buffer and away you go...:-)) > I have written no commands for manually changing the score of groups. > I don't really plan to... unless there's a Violent Uprising Craving > Group Score Commands of '96! Take cover!!!! :-) Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org