From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/31114 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: more getting started questions Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 14:18:21 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <011201bfc24e$9248deb0$0500a8c0@rufus> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167559 12169 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:32:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:32:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311A4D051F for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:20:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAB28619; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:18:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 20 May 2000 07:18:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA20530 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 07:18:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C065D051F for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 08:18:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.159]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id OAA02107; Sat, 20 May 2000 14:18:22 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.20.160]) by marcy.cs.uni-dortmund.de id OAA27614; Sat, 20 May 2000 14:18:21 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: (from grossjoh@localhost) by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id OAA02355; Sat, 20 May 2000 14:18:21 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de: grossjoh set sender to Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE using -f Original-To: "Eric S. Johansson" In-Reply-To: "Eric S. Johansson"'s message of "Sat, 20 May 2000 07:28:50 -0400" User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/21.0.90 Original-Lines: 61 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31114 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:31114 "Eric S. Johansson" writes: > One needs to keep in mind that using speech recognition is like having a > blind typist that randomly adds (or removes) words to what you're dictating. > It also gets very creative in terms of "not hearing you"... > > anyway I now have the article summary that looks like this: > > ! +[ 9: Mick Spencer ] Body Shop Painting for Rockets > ! + [ 21: Thoszhf ] > ! + [ 20: Greg Cisko ] > ! - [ 10: Connery ] > ! + [ 17: Ben ] > ! - [ 14: David Weinshenker ] > ! + [ 41: Mark Uhlenkamp ] > ! + [ 2: OTAK15 ] > ! + [ 12: Mark Uhlenkamp ] The `!' means that these messages are ticked. Ticked means important, and Gnus always shows you ticked articles. There is a section in the info file, `Marking Articles', which explains all about article marks. Ticked is just one of them. > first off, is there a table telling me what characters in the first column > mean and characters in the second column mean. In addition to the > exclamation point, I've seen an R and a Y. I assume the R means the article > has been read. As for the Y, I haven't a clue except it seems to be > something related to having killed articles. Which leads me to my next > question. These marks are explained under `Read Articles' in the Gnus info file section mentioned above. > I don't fully understand scoring yet but if my faint understandings > correct, killing a thread lowers its score which means I have to > work harder to read it? Every time I don't read it further lowers > its score? You are using adaptive scoring (because your .gnus file says so). Adaptive scoring means that Gnus tries to score articles up and down based on your reading preference. If you don't want that, turn off adaptive scoring again (by removing that line from your setup). You have also told Gnus explicitly what to do when you read or don't read which articles, by setting gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist. See the documentation of that variable for more information. Maybe you shouldn't just use snippets for your .gnus file if you don't know what they do! You don't have to understand the Lisp syntax of everything, but at least try to know what each snippet is for. It's like having the car mechanic install a number of buttons and knobs in your car, where you don't know what each button does. What if you accidentally hit one just before a red light and it turns out to be the turbo button? You don't have to know how the button works, just what it does. kai -- Beware of flying birch trees.