Re: all.SCORE for agent categories

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@sunweb.ch> writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
>> Whoa.. hold up there a minute Robert.  You've used what for quite a
>> while?  Can you spell this out at length for us intellectually
>> challenged folks..
>
> OK I spell it out *at length* ;-)

Oh goody... help for the nitwits...

> * Some groups I only want to check if there comes something interesting
>   and manually select each article to download, so they are in the
>   category 'header' with predicate 'false'.  I don't use that often.
>
> * Then there's the great majority of groups where I want to watch new
>   threads coming up (using orphan scoring), increase the score of
>   interesting stuff (using a macro, don't ask ;-) and have the Agent
>   download all follow-up's. As this is the normal case for me I put
>   them in the 'default' category with predicate 'high'. Then I go
>   to the category buffer, do 's' to edit the download score rule
>   and put the symbol 'file' instead of 'nil' into it.  That's it!

Your setup is very similar to mine, with the true, false, and
`other' categories.  My `other' has been a category with predicate
high and scoring on subjects containing `Re:'

I've been experimenting with a fourth category, the subject of all my
noise on this thread, where I try to use regular scoring and an
all.SCORE approach.  I agree that the double scoring rules are now
mainly a historical thing and not as handy as regurlar scoring.

I think I see how to do this now. Thanks to Kai and your patient
postings. 

Now the part I'm not supposed to ask......

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