From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14615 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: scoring down Date: 15 Mar 1998 13:48:57 -0800 Organization: none Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153778 17205 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:42:58 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10656 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 20:57:54 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24211 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:52:28 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAN18208; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 23:27:40 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:51:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA18594 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 22:51:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23505 invoked by uid 504); 16 Mar 1998 04:51:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23502 invoked from network); 16 Mar 1998 04:51:13 -0000 Original-Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 16 Mar 1998 04:51:13 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10406 invoked by uid 509); 16 Mar 1998 04:51:10 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: emacs.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pm6-33.sba1.avtel.net Original-X-Trace: sunsite.auc.dk 890023869 10398 (None) 207.71.222.83 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@sunsite.auc.dk X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.2/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14615 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:14615 Whatever experience I have with scoring had always been to score up, for one reason or another. Never really tried scoring down. Recently had the expeience of having a poster in one group posting forwarded messages with outlook express. Those postings are singularly obnoxious as they insert into the wrong thread and mess up any threading there. The text is dense with no paragraphs and the subject matter is usually very trivial. Well I decided to score this author down and did so. Not sure what I expected, but next time I opened the group this same authors posts are nicely marked with a Y and showing read, but here they still are. If scoring down doesn't keep articles from showing when the group is opened then what is the point of it? I guess I thought that when gnus did the scoring on opening a group that those marked Y and read would not be shown. I mean I had hoped a group showing 80 unread but 10 of those get scored down when the scoring happens, would only show 70 in the summary. I can think of many uses of scoring up but, mainly to provide further sorting with 'limited' views. Not many come to mind for scoring down since those articles will be marked as read whether they are scored down or not, when I exit the group with 'Z c Y'. So if it still requires further action to hide undesirable posts then what is the advantage of scoring down? -- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com