From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54680 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: scoring vs. killing Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:29:18 -1000 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067999432 16489 80.91.224.253 (5 Nov 2003 02:30:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 02:30:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3221@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Nov 05 03:30:30 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHDRF-000494-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:30:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AHDQd-0004Fk-00; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:29:51 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AHDQZ-0004Ff-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:29:47 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560A93A004F for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 20:29:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHDQX-0004Kc-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:29:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHDQW-0004KU-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:29:44 +0100 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHDQW-0004GI-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:29:44 +0100 Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oCj8sFaIgHQCXlZESgDUXq8KaO0= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54680 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54680 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 -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com