Re: What's a killed article ?

[Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 04 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
>>> On Wed, Dec 03 2008, Francis Moreau wrote:
>>>> I can't find (easily) any definitions of this.
>>>>
>>>> Info mentions a couple of time the work 'killed' for an article 
>>>> but I have no clue what does this mean... I understand expired,
>>>> read, deleted but killed sounds special.
>>
>> yes this one.
> [ (info "(gnus)Read Articles") ]
>
> This is the mark used when you kill an article or thread:
>
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Setting Marks") ]
> | `M k'
> | `k'
> |      Mark all articles that have the same subject as the current one
> |      as read, and then select the next unread article
> |      (`gnus-summary-kill-same-subject-and-select').
> `----
>
> If you don't use adaptive scoring, there's no difference to mark the
> article read using `d', I think.  If you use adaptive scoring it will
> create corresponding score entries, see gnus-killed-mark in (info
> "(gnus)Adaptive Scoring").
>

Thanks Reiner.

It's sad to see that such notion are left undefined until a late
section (SCORING).

I really found the gnus info documentation hard to read. Are there any
other documentation about gnus out there ?

Francis