Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> Dave Abrahams [2016-02-07 07:58:31-08] wrote:
>
>> on Fri Feb 05 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
>>> Yes, `L f' will do that, I think?
>>
>> I don't *think* so.  I don't just want to ignore the sender; I want to
>> entirely ignore any *thread* that particular sender might start.  Does
>> `L f' do that?
>
> Yes. It scores all followups to an author. In practice it adds this kind
> of entry to your score file:
>
>     ("followup"
>       ("author" -1000 nil s))
>
> That, in turn, will cause Gnus to automatically create adaptive scoring
> rule whenever that "author" sends a message. Those adaptive rules will
> look like this:
>
>     ("references"
>       ("<message-id@author>" -1000 736000 s)
>       ...)
>   
> The above message-id is from "author's" post and since it's a
> "references" rule it scores all messages which include
> <message-id@author> in their References field.
>
> So. "L a" scores a person and "L f" scores all followups for that
> person's messages.

Wow - I should have read that before commenting.  Thanks for the clear
explanation.

But in general, it would seem useful to have more programmability
surrounding scoring.