Re: Gnus: Permanently killing a thread?

[Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org>]

On Wed, Dec 11 2024, Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> wrote:

> 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.

I personally sync my score file across computers through Syncthing.

-g

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