>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  3 Feb 2022 at 07:26, dick wrote:
>> You'd be the first person or bot I've heard say this.

> I've never been called a bot before.  :-)

>> From Gnus Manual Section 8.6 "Initial impressions seem to indicate that
>> it's [i.e., adaptive scoring] totally useless as it stands."
>> 
>> Like most Gnus things, scoring is a bear to configure, but worse, its
>> default bag-of-words approach would get it wrong most of the time.

> Well, it works for me.  Yes, I spent some time getting the weights right
> for the various actions used for scoring but, at the very least, it does
> sort my emails in order of decreasing relevance/importance most of the
> time.  And it does a good job of automatically marking as read emails
> that I am seldom going to read.

> Also works well for some of the newsgroups (e.g. emacs.help and
> emacs.devel) and some rss feeds (arxiv).

> For the record, my settings are:

> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (setq gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist
>         '(;(gnus-kill-file-mark)
>           ;;(gnus-unread-mark)
>           ;; (gnus-read-mark (from 5) (subject 30))
>           (gnus-replied-mark (from 50) (subject 10))
>           (gnus-read-mark (from 30) (subject 10))
>           (gnus-cached-mark (from 30) (subject 10))
>           (gnus-forwarded-mark (from 10) (subject 5))
>           (gnus-saved-mark (from 10) (subject 5))
>           (gnus-expirable-mark (from 0) (subject 0))
>           (gnus-catchup-mark (from -5) (subject -30))
>           (gnus-killed-mark (subject -100))
>           (gnus-del-mark (from -10) (subject -50)))
>         gnus-default-adaptive-word-score-alist '((42 . 3) ;cached
>                                                  (65 . 2) ;replied
>                                                  (70 . 1) ;forwarded
>                                                  (82 . 1) ;read
>                                                  (67 . -1) ;catchup
>                                                  (69 . 0) ;expired
>                                                  (75 . -3) ;killed
>                                                  (114 . -3)) ;deleted
>         )
> #+end_src

Thanks for sharing, this is an issue that is in my heads for years but I
never took the time to look into it further. However more and more I
feel I need it. Right now I work with registries and mark threads as
IMPORTANT, TODO, DONE etc, but it is not that useful as I expected,
mainly because you cannot restrict the summary buffer to registries 
(a bug we discovered some weeks ago). So may this is a way to go


> and I've been using these now for a few years.

> I should add that I do have some fixed scores as well so, for instance,
> emails to me from the PhD students I supervise always score high no
> matter what the subject is.

That is to say you score according to their email address? I am
extremely interested in such a configuration, since I right now need it.


Would you mind sharing (off list if necessary)

Thanks

Uwe