Re: Gnus: Permanently killing a thread?

[Joel Reicher <joel.reicher@gmail.com>]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ..kill files are allegedly slow. So what you do instead is 'L', 
>> which allows you to lower the score of a thread, and then you 
>> can use 'V x' to set the score below which messages are 
>> automatically hidden (I donʼt remember offhand if the effect of 
>> 'V x' is permanent or not, as I donʼt really use scoring).
>
> The score approaches sounds find, except I was just wondering: 
> Is the score somehow portable across multiple computers? I use 
> multiple backends, including nnimap, nnatom, nnrss, and 
> nntp. However, focusing on the IMAP messages, it seems that if I 
> mark a message as read (which I think is basically the same 
> thing as "killing" it) then the message is still marked as read 
> when I login via Gnus on a different computer. Would hiding 
> still work if I was just marking messages with a low score?
>
> I only use nnatom, nnrss, and nntp on one computer, but the 
> nnimap, including the mailing list groups, are used from both 
> computers.

IMAP is a bit of a special case; where possible (always, perhaps?) 
Gnus will use IMAP flags stored on the server for representing 
things like readedness marks, ticks, etc.

It's also hiding read messages in the default view, right?

Cheers,

        - Joel