What is difference between 'R' and 'r' marks

What is difference between 'R' and 'r' marks

[Jake Colman]

If I read a message it is marked with 'R'.  If I press 'd' it is marked with
'r'.  Is there any practical difference between the two marks?

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Re: What is difference between 'R' and 'r' marks

[David S Goldberg]

>>>>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:02:50 -0500, Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com> said:

> If I read a message it is marked with 'R'.  If I press 'd' it is
> marked with 'r'.  Is there any practical difference between the two
> marks?
> 

Not really.

From the Gnus info:

   All the following marks mark articles as read.

`r'
     These are articles that the user has marked as read with the `d'
     command manually, more or less (`gnus-del-mark').

`R'
     Articles that have actually been read (`gnus-read-mark').

`O'
     Articles that were marked as read in previous sessions and are now
     "old" (`gnus-ancient-mark').

[...]

So the only difference between r and R is really a visual cue to you
as to whether you read or just marked an article in the current
session.  Either will show up as O in subsequent ones.

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Dave Goldberg
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Re: What is difference between 'R' and 'r' marks

[Steve Youngs]

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|--==> "DSG" == David S Goldberg <David> writes:

  DSG> So the only difference between r and R is really a visual cue to you
  DSG> as to whether you read or just marked an article in the current
  DSG> session.

Although you can score articles differently based on these marks...

(setq gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist
      '((gnus-del-mark (subject -1))
        (gnus-read-mark (from 1) (subject 3))))

In this example, articles that you mark with `d' will end up having
the score for its subject lowered by 1.  And any article that you
actually read will have the score for the author increased by 1 and
the subject increased by 3.

Obviously for this to work you need to be using "adaptive scoring".

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