Re: scoring down

[Eze Ogwuma <typhoon@dircon.co.uk>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> 
> > >>>>> On 15 Mar 1998, Harry Putnam said:
> > 
> >   Harry> Well I decided to score this author down and did so.  Not
> >   Harry> sure what I expected, but next time I opened the group this
> >   Harry> same authors posts are nicely marked with a Y and showing
> >   Harry> read, but here they still are.
> > 
> > Does typing M-g (from the summary buffer) make them disappear?
> 
> Trying this out just now on this group.  Typing M-g caused a full exit
> from the group, reselection of number of articles to view, but does
> remove the downscored articles.  However, had I entered and exited, then
> re-entered, those articles would have been removed with out scoring them
> down, so still missing the usefullness of this.

Try just using Z R without a prefix.

> Trying this in a few groups, sometimes M-g causes a full exit and re-entry,
> other times not.  

I think you'll find that they both exit then re-enter the group.

Hard to see what makes the difference.

The number of unread articles in the group.

> I've also notice typing C-u Z R when in summary buffer, will sometimes
> just bring up all articles, other times will cause a full exit first.
>
> Is it a matter of which backend the group is under, or the readedness
> state of remaining articles or what?

In this case the total number of articles in the group.

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Eze Ogwuma