Re: Confused about g-d-adaptive-score-alist manual description

[larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen)]

John Griffith <griffith@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> What does a element of this list do if has NO header/score pairs?  For
> instance, what does `(gnus-unread-mark)' do?

Nothing, basically.  :-)

>   1) If more than one element applies to an article, are all
>      header/score pairs used? (I assume they are).  For instance, if
>      an article is both read and marked dormant will the author get
>      raised 4+5 = 9 points?

Each article can have just a single readedness mark, so just a single
rule is applied to each article.

>   2) If several messages have the same subject (or the same author)
>      will the scoring rules be applied multiple times?  For instance,
>      if there are 26 articles in some thread which I didn't read but
>      catchup'd, would that subject be decreased by -1 or -26 points?

-26.

>   3) A list of all (reasonable) marks would be useful too.

The marks in the example are all the marks that I would consider being
interesting to score on.

I've now added a couple more paragraphs to that section of the
manual. 

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