Re: Score on thread?

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

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> I'm no scoring expert.  In a German newsgroup about news readers,
> people said that Forté Agent can do better scoring on threads than
> Gnus, because Gnus only looks at the References headers of the
> articles, whereas Agent builds the thread tree first, then scores in
> that tree.

It turns out that there is the following in the Gnus info file:

/----[ Score File Format ]
|          "Thread"
|                This match key works along the same lines as the
|                `Followup' match key.  If you say that you want to score
|                on a (sub-)thread started by an article with a
|                `Message-ID' X, then you add a `thread' match.  This
|                will add a new `thread' match for each article that has
|                X in its `References' header.  (These new `thread'
|                matches will use the `Message-ID's of these matching
|                articles.)  This will ensure that you can raise/lower
|                the score of an entire thread, even though some articles
|                in the thread may not have complete `References'
|                headers.  Note that using this may lead to
|                undeterministic scores of the articles in the thread.
|                (Using this match key will lead to creation of `ADAPT'
|                files.)
\----

I think this means that Gnus is as smart as Agent.  Right?

kai
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