From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4947 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:33:09 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <199601261752.AA084158727@teal.ece.ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145621 31306 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.7.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA10998 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 13:17:19 -0800 Original-Received: from surt.ifi.uio.no (4867@surt.ifi.uio.no [129.240.76.2]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:33:10 +0100 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by surt.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:33:10 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: nc0273@experience.corp.netcom.com's message of 26 Jan 1996 14:10:27 -0800 Original-Lines: 21 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4947 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4947 nc0273@experience.corp.netcom.com (Sean Lynch) writes: > (setq score (- score (* (sign score) (min score (max > gnus-score-decay-constant (* (abs score) > gnus-score-decay-scale)))))) Yup. I've added it to the Red Gnus todo list. > We need to make sure, though, that this function is called a definite > number of times, so that we can define its behavior. > > "This function sets all scores to 0 within five minutes of starting Gnus." We'd need to add a new atom to the score alists -- `(decay-date 435532)' that says what day the decay thing was done last. The decay function should be run once a day, so if you start Gnus after not using it for four days, perhaps Gnus should decay all scores four times? -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."