killfiles are bad?

killfiles are bad?

[Brian Adkins]

The documentation seems to suggest that killfiles are bad and scoring
should be used instead. I'm having trouble with what should be a very
simple task in my opinion.

I have the cursor on an article in the summary buffer. I'd like to
instruct Gnus to never show me another post from the author of the
article. I think I've looked through every  menu option and haven't
found a way to do this.

As a user, I don't care whether the method is scoring or a killfile as
long as it's easy and efficient.

Re: killfiles are bad?

[Brian Adkins]

Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

> The documentation seems to suggest that killfiles are bad and scoring
> should be used instead. I'm having trouble with what should be a very
> simple task in my opinion.
>
> I have the cursor on an article in the summary buffer. I'd like to
> instruct Gnus to never show me another post from the author of the
> article. I think I've looked through every  menu option and haven't
> found a way to do this.
>
> As a user, I don't care whether the method is scoring or a killfile as
> long as it's easy and efficient.

I posted too soon. I think the following will work:

L a e p

I'll find out as soon as I see the author's next post on Google Groups and he
doesn't show up in Gnus.

Re: killfiles are bad?

[Ben Bacarisse]

Brian Adkins <brian@ubuntu.sys76.local> writes:

> Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
>> I have the cursor on an article in the summary buffer. I'd like to
>> instruct Gnus to never show me another post from the author of the
>> article.
<snip>
> I posted too soon. I think the following will work:
>
> L a e p

Prefix this with M-i a and the rule will go into the all.SCORE file
rather than the score file for the current group.  Not always what one
wants, but very useful with L a r p for spam (you then edit the
suggested regexp to include all the expected variations).

-- 
Ben.

Re: killfiles are bad?

[Bob Fry]

>>>>> "BA" == Brian Adkins <brian@ubuntu.sys76.local> writes:

    BA> L a e p

If you really detest an author, use

F a e p

which will zap followups to the author's posts.
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Re: killfiles are bad?

[giglio robbo' d'acciaio]

Bob Fry <bobfry@mailinator.com> writes:

> F a e p

Isn't 'F' folloup-with-yank?
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Re: killfiles are bad?

[Bob Fry]

>>>>> "giglio" == giglio robbo' d'acciaio <dgiglio@iol.it> writes:

    giglio> Bob Fry <bobfry@mailinator.com> writes:
    >> F a e p

    giglio> Isn't 'F' folloup-with-yank?

Quite right--my mistake.  I meant

L f e p

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