Re: Pick and read method

[Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> 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."
> `----

Right. I thought it was the default.

>> 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?

Yes.

Bye, Xavier