Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

Lars> jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) writes:
>> Okay, so I've been using adaptive scoring for quite a while and have built
>> up some impressive scores for people who talk a lot.  Is there a way for us
>> to set maximum and minimum values for adaptive scores on the "from" and
>> "subject" lines?
>> 
>> Something like '(("from" . (-100 100)) ("subject" . (-500 500))) which
>> could maybe be added to the gnus-adaptive-score-alist or to yet another
>> global variable that can be overridden in a group's .SCORE file.

Lars> I think a general "score decay" function might be more useful.  For
Lars> instance, the scores could decay by 5% every time you read the score
Lars> file.

You could have something based on the number of times a scoring rule
has been applied to read articles.  I think the best way to do this
would be to gradually decay positive scores, and increase negative
scores.  That way it would take fewer kills to get rid of a thread
that has a taken a wrong turn somewhere.

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