From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40486 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Epprecht Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: all.SCORE for agent categories Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:32:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <861yiqq0sg.fsf@i2d.home> References: <86pu6curml.fsf@i2d.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176028 1143 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 17432 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 14:31:16 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 14:31:16 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 166urm-0003Vt-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:30:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:29:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA03857 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:29:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 17410 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2001 14:29:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17405 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 14:29:56 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO baps.zh.cybernet.ch) (212.90.198.162) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 14:29:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18014 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2001 15:34:10 -0000 Original-Received: from diup-194-123.cybernet.ch (HELO i2d.home) (212.90.194.123) by baps.zh.cybernet.ch with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 15:34:10 -0000 Original-Received: from dada by i2d.home with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 166vpo-00008c-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:32:16 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:47:44 -0800") Original-Lines: 49 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40486 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40486 Harry Putnam writes: > Whoa.. hold up there a minute Robert. You've used what for quite a > while? Can you spell this out at length for us intellectually > challenged folks.. OK I spell it out *at length* ;-) I have all my newsgroups under the agent (no mail groups). This is my way of using it: * There are a few groups where I want to download everything, so I have them in category 'all' with predicate 'true'. * Some groups I only want to check if there comes something interesting and manually select each article to download, so they are in the category 'header' with predicate 'false'. I don't use that often. * Then there's the great majority of groups where I want to watch new threads coming up (using orphan scoring), increase the score of interesting stuff (using a macro, don't ask ;-) and have the Agent download all follow-up's. As this is the normal case for me I put them in the 'default' category with predicate 'high'. Then I go to the category buffer, do 's' to edit the download score rule and put the symbol 'file' instead of 'nil' into it. That's it! > Maybe describe a complete `category' and what it does. Hope it's clear now... I never understood what it can be good for to have two sets of scoring rules, the ordinary ones and the download scores for the Agent. So I started to use ordinary score files as soon as this became possible in Gnus. The ordinary scoring interface is so handy, and there is (was?) nothing like it for the Agent. I wouldn't want to use the Agent without... So I have that useful 'watch thread and download' functionality and all the other Gnus Goodies (regarding scoring) which make reading news so much more convenient for me. > Is it just a matter of saying `file' in the right place? How does > gnus now what `file' you mean? Or does it automatically mean a file > with that group name? If so then that is not like an all.SCORE file. I think 'file' is just a key word that triggers Gnus to do The Right Thing, which is (for me) download all articles with positive scoring. If I'm not mistaken it respects both, the group.SCORE score file and all.SCORE. Just as in ordinary scoring. Robert Epprecht