From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86591 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Lower all threads started by a particular tro... er, person? Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:36:07 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87r3hrqe5u.fsf@tullinup.koldfront.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452555680 6552 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2016 23:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34818@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 12 00:41:08 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm5C-0006ZG-7q for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm4W-00069E-Oo; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:40:24 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm4S-00068P-Rm for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:40:20 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm4Q-0000hP-Vh for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 17:40:20 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm4O-0003Jl-SJ for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:40:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIm49-0005gL-2G for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:40:01 +0100 Original-Received: from 17.212.145.127 ([17.212.145.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:40:01 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by 17.212.145.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:40:01 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 17.212.145.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rTUz+dDrYk81zbcqnF6dtRUCUXQ= X-Spam-Score: -0.1 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86591 Archived-At: on Sat Jan 09 2016, Steinar Bang wrote: >>>>>> asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren): > >> Does this hide the entire _thread_? > > No, just the troll in question. Yeah, the problem here is that other people jump on the thread and waste my bandwidth dealing with the unproductive input and I really want to down-score the whole thing. > There is a possibility to score down on both the subject, Using the subject can lead to down-scoring too many articles. In principle there should be no reason to do this based on subject, since thread references are present in the message headers. > and on that particular thread (using references (at least I _think_ > there is...)), but I don't know how to do this without looking it up. I guess that would be `L r'. But I want to find messages from a certain author and then programmatically down-score everything that refers to that message. I suppose [[info:gnus#Advanced%20Scoring][info:gnus#Advanced Scoring]] could be used to write a sufficiently ugly rule, but I worry that it might take too long to process. I wonder how hard it would be to extend that stuff to allow for arbitrary ancestry searching, e.g. with ^* -Dave