Dave Abrahams [2016-02-07 07:58:31-08] wrote:

> on Fri Feb 05 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
>> Yes, `L f' will do that, I think?
>
> I don't *think* so.  I don't just want to ignore the sender; I want to
> entirely ignore any *thread* that particular sender might start.  Does
> `L f' do that?

Yes. It scores all followups to an author. In practice it adds this kind
of entry to your score file:

    ("followup"
      ("author" -1000 nil s))

That, in turn, will cause Gnus to automatically create adaptive scoring
rule whenever that "author" sends a message. Those adaptive rules will
look like this:

    ("references"
      ("<message-id@author>" -1000 736000 s)
      ...)
  
The above message-id is from "author's" post and since it's a
"references" rule it scores all messages which include
<message-id@author> in their References field.

So. "L a" scores a person and "L f" scores all followups for that
person's messages.

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