Re: all.SCORE for agent categories

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Oh, cool.  I went looking for that stuff a few times and didn't find
> it.  But unless I'm misreading the section it appears that something
> still has to be entered into a group param to cause the agent to use a
> specific score file.  Something like:
>
> (agent-score "~/News/all.SCORE")
>
> Would have to be entered into each groups group-params, and yes that
> would do it but isn't really any different than having to enter
> something in each agent category score file.
>
> Also it isn't clear without experimentation if the group param setting
> would override the category score or add to it.
>
> When you say "It appears that it is possible to tell the Agent to use
> normal score files....."
>
> Are you refering to the same section on syntax? Or is there another
> section that shows a way to tell the agent globally to use regular
> scoring? 
>
> An `s' search in gnus info on `agent-score' only finds hits in the
> syntax section cited.
>
> The mechanism of all.SCORE requires no special effort in regular
> scoring right? If it is there it gets used globally.  Is there a way
> to tell the agent to use that file globally too? But to let it add to
> any category score already in place.

It appears the spec should be (agent-score . file), not (agent-score
. "/some/file/name").

Since the group parameter is the same for all groups, you could set it
in the top-level topic, or via the gnus-parameters variable, or
something.

But note that I've only read the documentation, not actually tried it.

kai
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