general question about groups

general question about groups

[.Martin.]

I'm getting more and more familiar with gnus. The thing is that
regardless of a newsgroup reader, I'm still very new to newsgroups in general.
The more I read into gnus tutorials the more I come across concepts
like: group level, scoring, marking, ranking.
I'm probably missing something here, but what's their practical usage?
Do you score/rank/mark/set level to groups? If so, how does it help you
later?

thank you in advance

-- 
regards

.Martin.

Re: general question about groups

[Adam Sjøgren]

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54:17 +0000, .Martin. wrote:

> The more I read into gnus tutorials the more I come across concepts
> like: group level, scoring, marking, ranking.
> I'm probably missing something here, but what's their practical usage?

I don't mean to sound rude, but did you look those concepts up in the
manual?

 Group levels:     http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_24.html#SEC24
 Scoring:          http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_262.html#SEC262
 Marking groups:   http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_26.html#SEC26
 Marking articles: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_76.html#SEC76

(Can't find ranking though, where did you see that?)


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: general question about groups

[.Martin.]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:54:17 +0000, .Martin. wrote:
>
>> The more I read into gnus tutorials the more I come across concepts
>> like: group level, scoring, marking, ranking.
>> I'm probably missing something here, but what's their practical usage?
>
> I don't mean to sound rude, but did you look those concepts up in the
> manual?
>
>  Group levels:     http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_24.html#SEC24
>  Scoring:          http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_262.html#SEC262
>  Marking groups:   http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_26.html#SEC26
>  Marking articles: http://gnus.org/manual/gnus_76.html#SEC76
>
> (Can't find ranking though, where did you see that?)
>
>
>   Best regards,
>
>     Adam


I admit I haven't read that part of the manual yet:)
When it comes to ranks, I think I saw it in emacs menu 'sort by rank'.
Do you use any of them yourself?
thanks
-- 
regards

.Martin.