Gnus: Lowering thread score

Gnus: Lowering thread score

[Christopher Howard]

Hi. In my mailing list Gnus groups, I have been using gnus-summary-lower-score to hide uninteresting threads. More specifically, I have been using "L s e t <return>" (in a macro), to lower score by subject, and this has been working pretty well in practice. However, it occurred to me this later on my potentially hide threads that are a different thread, but the same subject. That could be a problem if, say, a year from now I decide that the subject is now interesting, or if somebody uses a short, ambiguous subject line.

I tried replacing this with "L t e t <return>" but that does not appear to be working — none of the thread messages get marked as "Y" or anything, as far as I can tell. Could somebody give me some guidance on this?

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Re: Gnus: Lowering thread score

[James Thomas]

(I haven't used all this in a while; this is just based on the manual)

Christopher Howard wrote:

> Hi. In my mailing list Gnus groups, I have been using
> gnus-summary-lower-score to hide uninteresting threads. More
> specifically, I have been using "L s e t <return>" (in a macro), to
> lower score by subject, and this has been working pretty well in
> practice. However, it occurred to me this later on my potentially hide
> threads that are a different thread, but the same subject. That could
> be a problem if, say, a year from now I decide that the subject is now
> interesting, or if somebody uses a short, ambiguous subject line.

Aren't you using a temporary entry anyway?

> I tried replacing this with "L t e t <return>" but that does not
> appear to be working — none of the thread messages get marked as "Y"
> or anything, as far as I can tell. Could somebody give me some
> guidance on this?

I hope you understand correctly that that's only for a _particular
thread_; anyway check the conditions mentioned in “Thread” in (info
"(gnus) Score File Format").

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