scoring vs. killing

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Hi,

I tried to make some guy's troll-ish messages disappear by lowering
the score of articles he authored using `L a f p', since my message
buffer is normally not showing read articles and the default is to
mark articles with a score lower than zero as read.  However, the
effect I got was that his undownloaded articles appear italicized with
a "Y" in the marks column.  That appears to be a "marked read because
of too low a score" mark, but the article is still visible :(

I then resorted to the kill file solution and his articles
disappeared.  Hooray!

However, I hear kill files aren't really a good way to do this.  How
do I use scoring to avoid endless distraction with articles I
shouldn't read?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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