From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ttzy7pg1.fsf@localhost> <87wn4u6xj0.fsf@yahoo.com> <87sffg69yj.fsf@yahoo.com> <87zg9f3rz4.fsf@localhost> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36983"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, yantar92@posteo.net, 61325@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 19 05:51:33 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbfh-0009Of-Ll for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2023 05:51:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbfG-0003ae-TP; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbfC-0003Ye-OR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbfC-0001kM-CK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbfB-0006M9-Ql for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 04:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 61325 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 61325-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B61325.167678221224343 (code B ref 61325); Sun, 19 Feb 2023 04:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 61325) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Feb 2023 04:50:12 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45362 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbeN-0006KZ-Nk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35256) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbeK-0006KI-0D for 61325@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbeE-00014w-8J; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:02 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=KNNgW3rsYLf0bJ93hyOgwu5A6ZNuhLkCv13kjJOc1n0=; b=a2BRVSVoEQsf cbUYdcg8mJJiFUXYyDXFviGm+YHgxXx7vo5uihqWzUGszx/+qWezE7rOHTWpaE/DBZZv+RkSvq4lh jEyUJvRubN5Q3JTisjrTRp9FfqhKcI/gniJ0vMMe2BEY+qYeCoT0KJRlDSTWrwfhgHOZAU1nfEiyY AbQqTDrSUp7qugYUlOS5lWnC0RHNCI0g5SPzr1M3e7MElv74zGhV6lmcSr7RBIgWuBdN90RPP3fDL ABzE7JqZcgBklp82Fxiz00sJAZMH5w+2ym6APMJ6icYDY8X3jCrmFSUuTsTqLx9sJndccDNzJ007m l2yt585HxeKSJVHFQCI0vA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pTbeD-00009B-SI; Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:22:40 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:256019 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a file used > by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some > unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header > lines. Adding a person or subject to one's kill file means that > person or topic will be ignored by one's newsreader in the > future. By extension, the term may be used for a decision to > ignore the person or subject in other media. I see. But the manual has to tell the reader this, if it mentions kill files at all. > More advanced newsreader software like Gnus sometimes provides a > more sophisticated form of filter known as scoring, where score > files are maintained which use fuzzy logic to apply arbitrarily > complex overlapping sets of rules to score articles up or down, > with articles being properly killed (ignored by the newsreader) > only when their weighted score drops below a user-defined > threshold. That seems like a useful feature. But the GNUS manual has to explain it. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)