From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68084 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Pick and read method Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:14:33 +0100 Message-ID: <873afxsbeu.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <87sknyhvts.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231190114 16112 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 21:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 21:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xavier@maillard.mobi To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16529@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jan 05 22:16:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LJwoA-0006yO-DS for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LJwma-0007pa-F7; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:14:44 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LJwmZ-0007pE-5B for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:14:43 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LJwmU-0004BH-Vs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:14:43 -0600 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LJwmk-0002sf-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:14:54 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n05LEalM021687; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:14:36 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9A11C921; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:14:36 +0100 (CET) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68084 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/