From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5156 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Griffith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Confused about g-d-adaptive-score-alist manual description Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:57:39 +0100 Message-ID: <199602171157.MAA04919@filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145798 31943 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: griffith@filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id EAA17009 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 04:25:03 -0800 Original-Received: from filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.129.45]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:57:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (griffith@localhost) by filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA04919; Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:57:39 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: filippo.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5156 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5156 The manual gives the following example: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (defvar gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist '((gnus-unread-mark) (gnus-ticked-mark (from 4)) (gnus-dormant-mark (from 5)) (gnus-del-mark (from -4) (subject -1)) (gnus-read-mark (from 4) (subject 2)) (gnus-expirable-mark (from -1) (subject -1)) (gnus-killed-mark (from -1) (subject -3)) (gnus-kill-file-mark) (gnus-catchup-mark (from -1) (subject -1)))) As you see, each element in this alist has a mark as a key (either a variable name or a "real" mark--a character). Following this key is a random number of header/score pairs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What does a element of this list do if has NO header/score pairs? For instance, what does `(gnus-unread-mark)' do? This does not seem to be addressed. Also, other questions include: 1) If more than one element applies to an article, are all header/score pairs used? (I assume they are). For instance, if an article is both read and marked dormant will the author get raised 4+5 = 9 points? 2) If several messages have the same subject (or the same author) will the scoring rules be applied multiple times? For instance, if there are 26 articles in some thread which I didn't read but catchup'd, would that subject be decreased by -1 or -26 points? 3) A list of all (reasonable) marks would be useful too.