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From: Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Scoring
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:42:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44tz4gvrr7.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <inzle9eeuy.fsf@elk.cs.sfu.ca>

David Breton <dbreton@cs.sfu.ca> writes:

> I would like to have scoring do something and I can't figure out how to
> do it so I thought I'd ask here.
>
> There's this guy on one of the newsgroup I read.  Every time he enters a
> thread, it goes downhill really fast, you know the type.  So what I
> would like to do is kill all the thread that he starts (not just his
> posting in the thread, the whole thing).  Also when he enters a thread
> started by someone else, I want to kill the whole subthread that he
> started (again not just his postings but the whole tree rooted at the
> point at which he entered).  I really hate that poster.
>
> So can this be done?  I looked at thread-mark-and-expunge but this is
> not what I want because when he enters a thread, I don't want to kill
> the entire thing, just the subthread for which he is the root.

What you want is "lower on followup".
Key sequence is "Lf".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-22 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-22  0:01 Scoring David Breton
2009-04-22  4:35 ` Scoring Richard Riley
2009-04-22 11:42 ` Lowell Gilbert [this message]
2009-04-22 12:03   ` Scoring Andrzej Adam Filip
2009-04-22 20:48   ` Scoring David Breton
2012-09-26 19:31 Scoring Tassilo Horn
2012-09-26 21:49 ` Scoring Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-09-27  6:12   ` Scoring Tassilo Horn
2012-09-27  6:25     ` Scoring Tassilo Horn

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