Re: Adaptive score and highlighting?

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Lidell <konmsll@eua.ericsson.se> writes:

    Mats> Hi, I'm using the default adaption rules and I then get
    Mats> authors highlighted if I just read them once (!?) Or they
    Mats> are "lowered" if just a score of "-1" is attached to them.

    Mats> I dont' like this. Is there some way to get "highlight" when
    Mats> above some score (say 10) and "dimmed" when lower another
    Mats> score (say -10) so that small random changes won't trigger
    Mats> highlighting.

Nope.  You may set the default score, but you may not specify a
default score range.  That's a good idea though.

    Mats> I think there is a general problem also involved with this
    Mats> type of mechanism. Authors that once get "highlighted" will
    Mats> get their score increased because you must read him again
    Mats> because he is highlighted.

This is a problem.  The effect (which I've seen for as long as I've
been using Gnus) is that if you are unfortunate enough to read a
spammed article, subsequent copies you see (by default) will have
their scores raised.

I've found various workarounds using adaptive scoring.  First off,
when you leave a group, the scoring information is based on the mark
the article has.  Let's say you read an article, and are less than
pleased with the author or thread.  If you C-k or d after reading,
then the article (and author) will get a reduced score in the adaptive
scoring.  Note that the values by which the score gets reduced is
controlled by the gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist variable.

    Mats> I guess there is no solution to
    Mats> this other than to remove his score when you find out that
    Mats> this author doens't deserve that score. But then how do you
    Mats> do that in a controlled maner. Lower on author?

If you want to nuke the author, then lower on author will do nicely.
The worst offenders though, seem to have a propensity for varying
their from lines, so you will have to be clever about it.

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steve@miranova.com baur