From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4924 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steven L Baur Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring Date: 26 Jan 1996 10:55:04 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.41) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145602 31264 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:26:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA32407 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:34:10 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 19:58:07 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA31985; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:55:09 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: larsi@ifi.uio.no's message of 26 Jan 1996 08:46:07 -0800 Original-Lines: 25 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.32/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4924 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen 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. -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.