Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring

[Brian Edmonds <edmonds@cs.ubc.ca>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> The point of the decay thing is to avoid having all the things you
Lars> like reach posinf while the things you don't like would reach
Lars> neginf, isn't it?

Well, as the person who originally suggested aging of adaptive scores
way back when[1], I pretty much agree with Lars.  As I see it, adaptive
scoring mostly gets rid of noisy topics and people, with the side
advantage of highlighting interesting topics and people.  However, both
topics and people change, but may not go away completely.  So it would
be nice for them to be able to fade in and out over time, which a
percentage decay towards zero would accomplish.

I also think that the max/min (at least max :) adaptive score is a good
idea.  With my scoring scheme, once anyone gets to a couple hundred or
so, they really aren't any more interesting after going up another
couple hundred, and scores too large tend to screw up formatting of my
summary buffers. :)

Brian.

[1] See the mailing list archives starting towards the end of Feb95. 
    Unfortunately, I had neither the time, nor the necessary experience
    with elisp (particularly with Gnus internals) to implement it.