Re: Adaptive scoring

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

"Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@Amdocs.com> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
> > "Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@Amdocs.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It happens if you Lf* ot If*.  The *.SCORE files show followup clauses as
> > > expexted but also *.ADAPT are created with references clauses.  What do
> > > you have in you *.ADAPT files?
> > 
> > Here is the first bytes of one:
> > 
> > (("thread"
> > ("<Pine.SOL.3.96.990504121948.7026D-100000@ux8.cso.uiuc.edu>" nil
> > 729878 s) ("<372f278f.14345258@news.megsinet.net>" nil 729878 s)
> > ("<Pine.SOL.3.96.990503214434.15321A-100000@ux11.cso.uiuc.edu>" nil
> > 729878 s)
> > 
> > ... and so on (they do not have any line breaks inside).
> > 
> > I have no idea what either Lf* or If* is or does so I suppose I don't
> > :)
> 
> It seems that you score by thread Pressing `L'
> (gnus-summary-lower-score) or 'I' (gnus-summary-increase-score) and then
> `t' to permanently score down a thread.  Scoring down (or up) a thread
> as well as scoring down by followup (L and then f) uses the adaptive
> scoring machanizm.  Maybe some other scoring options uses the adaptice
> machanism to do this.

Thanks. This must be it. Although I do not score threads, I *do* score
down certain posters and subjects. I never realized it was ending up
in *.ADAPT files, although I never actually gave it much thought. What
I do not understand though is - some messages in summary buffers are
shown in bold, with '+' sign to the left. I could never figure out on
what principle those messages were selected. I assumed that that was
the result of that adaptive scoring which I didn't know why was going
on. If it is - why? I never raised any scores :) Or am I missing
something obvious again?

> All of this isn't documented in the manual so it seems as a
> documentation bug.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.