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Shaun> Shaun Lipscombe <URL:mailto:shaun.lipscombe@gasops.co.uk>

0> In article <wkbtbwcem2.fsf@gasops.co.uk>, Shaun wrote:

Shaun> What is the purpose of dormant?  I have used it before and in
Shaun> the manual it says that its too mark followups as interesting.
Shaun> Is this just used then, to increase a sub-thread score... or
Shaun> does it have another purpose?

It's to keep an article around, but not show it unless there's a
followup visible.  For instance, if someone posts a large bit of code
related to something I'm working on, I might mark it dormant so that
if someone follows-up responding with a highly-trimmed quote I will
have the original available for context.

Actually, I just use it for almost anything I want to go into the
cache without distracting me every time I look in the group.

In itself, dormant doesn't affect scoring - though like any mark,
you can use it to do adaptive scoring.  (I do, because if I've made
something dormant, it's because it's a topic I'd like to track).