From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/41644 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Score variable gnus-update-score-entry-dates Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 10:40:10 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177009 7296 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 8615 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 18:41:18 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 18:41:18 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Mvka-0005QN-00; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:41:00 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:40:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA15259 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:40:42 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 8598 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2002 18:40:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 8593 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2002 18:40:43 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 18:40:43 -0000 Original-Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA59490 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:40:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g05IeBK17995; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:40:11 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sat, 05 Jan 2002 18:14:17 +0100") Original-Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41644 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:41644 --=-=-= Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > So `gnus-update-score-entry-dates' really determines how temporary > score rule entries are aged. If nil, all temporary score rule entries > are aged. If non-nil, only the non-triggered score rule entries are > aged. Ahaa so `match' = `triggered' . That makes sense now. Maybe a tiny patch is in order. (Hope I did that right..(i.e. diff -u gnus.texi gnus.texi.edited >gnus.texi.diff)) --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-patch Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=gnus.texi.diff Content-Description: match = trigger --- gnus.texi Sat Jan 5 10:02:10 2002 +++ gnus.texi.new Sat Jan 5 10:20:56 2002 @@ -17025,12 +17025,12 @@ @item gnus-update-score-entry-dates @vindex gnus-update-score-entry-dates -If this variable is non-@code{nil}, matching score entries will have -their dates updated. (This is how Gnus controls expiry---all -non-matching entries will become too old while matching entries will -stay fresh and young.) However, if you set this variable to @code{nil}, -even matching entries will grow old and will have to face that oh-so -grim reaper. +If this variable is non-@code{nil}, temporary score entries that have +been triggered (matched) will have their dates updated. (This is how Gnus +controls expiry---all non-matched-entries will become too old while +matched entries will stay fresh and young.) However, if you set this +variable to @code{nil}, even matched entries will grow old and will +have to face that oh-so grim reaper. @item gnus-score-after-write-file-function @vindex gnus-score-after-write-file-function --=-=-=--