Gnus development mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: gnus-glimpse.el -- search a newsgroup using glimpse
Date: 25 May 1997 02:18:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vaf9114bdzo.fsf@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 24 May 1997 06:09:11 +0200

On searching newsgroups and on search engines with ranking.

It seems to me that there are two possibilities of presenting the
result of the query to a user:

(1) Messages that are ranked higher appear in the beginning of the
    summary buffer, lower ranked messages are put near the end.  This
    is what search engines have traditionally done.

(2) Use the scoring mechanism of Gnus to score highly relevant
    messages higher.  This gives the user a less intuitive feedback on
    which mails are relevant and how relevant they are.  But it
    interacts better with threading.  (After all, the probability is
    high that a user wants to read more messages from the same thread
    when one message of the thread has been found.)

The two alternatives conflict.  I don't see how to resolve this
conflict.

Any ideas?
kai
-- 
Life is hard and then you die.


  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-05-25  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-05-20 17:39 Kai Grossjohann
1997-05-22 23:14 ` Mark Eichin
1997-05-23  7:56   ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-05-23 17:09   ` Greg Stark
1997-05-24  4:09     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-25  0:13       ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-05-25  0:18       ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1997-05-25  0:03     ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-05-23 19:08   ` Mark Eichin
2000-11-09 16:34 ` Norman Walsh
2000-11-09 18:09   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-11-09 18:47     ` Norman Walsh
2000-11-09 19:23       ` Francisco Solsona
2000-11-10 16:23     ` Norman Walsh

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=vaf9114bdzo.fsf@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de \
    --to=grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).