Re: Better defaults for adaptive scores together with decays.

[Martin Geisler <mgeisler@mgeisler.net>]

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Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 12 2005, Martin Geisler wrote:
>
>> Gnus v5.11
>> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars, multi-tty)
> [...]
>> When using adaptive scoring together with decaying of scores, authors
>> are never really adaptively scored: when reading an article the from
>> address gets +3, but the default decay function snaps scores between
>> -3 and +3 to zero... so unless you happen to read several articles by
>> the same author on a given day, then the scores will always stay at
>> zero.
>
> How about making it depend on `gnus-score-decay-constant'?  But
> maybe that's overkill and we should only mention it in the doc
> string.  Opinions?

I think your suggestion is very good!  The important thing is that
people see the wanted effect right "out of the box" --- afterwards
they can adjust it as always.

Thanks for looking into this!

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