From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61173 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Geisler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Better defaults for adaptive scores together with decays. Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:18:22 +0200 Message-ID: <871x2orutd.fsf@futtelifut.dyndns.org> References: <87achfhej1.fsf@futtelifut.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129304972 2823 80.91.229.2 (14 Oct 2005 15:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9706@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 14 17:49:27 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQRns-0002SE-Th for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:49:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQRnh-0002pk-00; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:48:53 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EQRKj-0002Zm-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EQRKd-0003ut-Me for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail21.bluewin.ch ([195.186.18.66]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EQRKZ-0007J2-00 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:18:47 +0200 Original-Received: from futtelifut.dyndns.org (62.203.250.61) by mail21.bluewin.ch (Bluewin 7.2.066) id 434430D20019D5B8 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:18:45 +0000 Original-Received: from mg by futtelifut.dyndns.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1EQRKD-0000uA-0p for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:18:25 +0200 Original-To: Ding List Mail-Followup-To: Martin Geisler , Ding List In-Reply-To: (Reiner Steib's message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:16:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61173 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reiner Steib 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, mu= lti-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! --=20 Martin Geisler GnuPG Key: 0x7E45DD38 PHP Exif Library | PHP Weather | PHP Shell http://pel.sf.net/ | http://phpweather.net/ | http://mgeisler.net/ Read/write Exif data | Show current weather | A shell in a browser --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDT8xA6nfwy35F3TgRAsB9AJ4xQx81O0/mFD57nlRIj/nwACj/HQCeNuaM IkSP8cWKDXUV/0eM2xbbApo= =8O/n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--