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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: ding@gnus.org
Cc: xavier@maillard.mobi
Subject: Re: Pick and read method
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:14:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873afxsbeu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sknyhvts.fsf@gnu.org> (Xavier Maillard's message of "Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:49:03 +0100")

On Mon, Jan 05 2009, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> Would it be possible to disable scoring in the summary buffer

Unless you activate adaptive scoring or add rule manually, no scoring
happens.  So I'm not sure what you have in mind.

,----
| (defcustom gnus-use-adaptive-scoring nil
|   "*If non-nil, use some adaptive scoring scheme.
| If a list, then the values `word' and `line' are meaningful.  The
| former will perform adaption on individual words in the subject
| header while `line' will perform adaption on several headers."
`----

> when one is following the 'pick and read' way ? Actually, this
> method is more or less a 'manual scoring' of the messages/threads
> of interest and thus, having both could confuse a user.
>
> More generally, how many people are using this method and why ?
> Talking for me, it is because I do not like automatic scoring

You mean adaptive scoring?

> made by Gnus; hard to setup, hasardous results when tweaked too
> much, could discard totally valid messages (or the opposite), ...
> Maybe the adaptative scoring is not for me and I should stick
> with the 'kill-file' + 'pick and read' method (currently I am
> evaluating it).

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-05 10:49 Xavier Maillard
2009-01-05 21:14 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2009-01-05 22:31   ` Xavier Maillard

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