From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/12321 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glyn Millington Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus scoring insanity Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:09:23 +0100 Organization: Utterly lacking Message-ID: <864ouf6g3g.fsf@nowhere.org> References: <87y6rsuh4w.fsf@bb.nothome.com> Reply-To: wistanswick@linuxmail.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245187378 29413 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2009 21:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:22:58 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 16 23:22:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MGg7I-0001wC-8X for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:22:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44653 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGg7H-0003py-E1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGg4r-0001WU-8g for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGg4n-0001SD-3B for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55621 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGg4m-0001S2-N1 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42328 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGg4m-0003It-4t for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:20:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MGg4Y-000639-VO for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:20:03 +0000 Original-Received: from 82.152.120.109 ([82.152.120.109]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:20:02 +0000 Original-Received: from wistanswick by 82.152.120.109 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:20:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 80 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.152.120.109 X-Liturgical-Date: Weekday: Tuesday of the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time, A.D. 2009 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oR35tKpWNy7bHwhJpE4FO3de2sg= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:12321 Archived-At: notbob@bb.nothome.com writes: > Been using gnus for newsgroups for a couple weeks. I really like it > and while I wish for some functions like slrn, the bennies far > outweigh the downside ....with one exception! > > What's the deal with scoring for newsgroups? I've read half the gnus > Scoring section and understand none of it. Man pages are child's play in > comparison to the doubletalk that is the gnus manual. To wit: > > "The current score file is by default the group's local score file, > even if no such score file actually exists. To insert score commands > into some other score file (e.g. `all.SCORE'), you must first make > this score file the current one." > > Huh!? Can we please speak-a da English? Hi nb, You have to realise that in starting to use Gnus you are entering a world of mystery and magic, a world that responds to thoughtful contemplation and intelligent enquiry :-) Here is some snippage form my .gnus file with comments - the real; experts here will point out the mistakes :-) The one to get rid of articles you don't like is gnus-summary-expunge-below - see below. ;,---- ;| Scoring ;`---- ;:*======================= ; SCORING - the central score file. Gnus wil populate your ~/News ; directory with lots of score files unless you tell it not to. I prefer ; having all this stuff in one file .... (setq gnus-home-score-file "/home/glyn/News/all.SCORE") ;;1. Adaptive scoring: Gnus KNOWS what you like to read! ;;* Scoring away boring stuff. (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t) (defvar gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist '((gnus-unread-mark) (gnus-ticked-mark (from 4)) (gnus-dormant-mark (from 5)) (gnus-del-mark (from -4) (subject -1)) (gnus-read-mark (from 1) (subject 1)) (gnus-expirable-mark (from -1) (subject -1)) (gnus-killed-mark (from -1) (subject -3)) (gnus-kill-file-mark (from -999)) (gnus-ancient-mark (subject -1)) (gnus-low-score-mark (subject -1)) (gnus-catchup-mark (subject -1)) ) ) ;; Some extra headers for scoring purposes. (setq gnus-extra-headers '(Organization Newsgroups Keywords) nnmail-extra-headers gnus-extra-headers) ;; This one is a beauty - articles with a lower score than this will ;; not be shown in the summary buffer. (setq gnus-summary-expunge-below -999) Hope that helps get you started atb Glyn