From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4004 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Adaptive score and highlighting? Date: 16 Nov 1995 10:18:42 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144815 28228 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:13:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:13:35 +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 (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA31400 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 11:06:04 -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 ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 19:18:54 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA30342; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:18:45 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: konmsll@eua.ericsson.se's message of 15 Nov 1995 00:56:08 -0800 Original-Lines: 43 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.12 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4004 >>>>> "Mats" == Mats Lidell 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. -- steve@miranova.com baur