Re: new feature for Red - adaptive scoring

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

jvinson@cheux.ecs.umass.edu (Jack Vinson) writes:

> Okay, so I've been using adaptive scoring for quite a while and have built
> up some impressive scores for people who talk a lot.  Is there a way for us
> to set maximum and minimum values for adaptive scores on the "from" and
> "subject" lines?
> 
> Something like '(("from" . (-100 100)) ("subject" . (-500 500))) which
> could maybe be added to the gnus-adaptive-score-alist or to yet another
> global variable that can be overridden in a group's .SCORE file.

I think a general "score decay" function might be more useful.  For
instance, the scores could decay by 5% every time you read the score
file.  Or something like that -- I'm sure somebody could come up with
a nice function that would prohibit scores from reaching infinity
while still letting "good" articles get a higher score than "bad"
ones.  

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