From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40489 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: all.SCORE for agent categories Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:05:42 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <86pu6curml.fsf@i2d.home> <861yiqq0sg.fsf@i2d.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176031 1162 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:53:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:53:51 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19545 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 17:12:00 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 17:12:00 -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 166xNc-00048G-00; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:11:16 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:10:59 -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 LAA04297 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 11:10:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19537 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2001 17:10:54 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19532 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 17:10:53 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.newsguy.com (HELO newsguy.com) (209.155.56.71) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Nov 2001 17:10:53 -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 JAA44884 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:10:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAMHAJA21209; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:10:19 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <861yiqq0sg.fsf@i2d.home> (Robert Epprecht's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:32:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) Original-Lines: 43 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40489 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40489 Robert Epprecht writes: > Harry Putnam 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...... "For god sakes man... post it! ... They're human!" (Bones ([Deforest Kelly] on star trek) "Can you post (or mail privately) to help a retard?" (Harry on ding)