OK thanks, make sense. 

I'll leave ancientness alone and swap the char values of the gnus-ancient-mark and gnus-unread-mark 
then (as well as the faces). That should be alright, right?

I think I'll find it more natural the other way round, that is, make the unread status stand out.

João

PS: Also sorry to emacs-devel for completely missing the mailing list, I meant emacs-help... this is what the 40C of heat does to you :-) 


On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:

> I see, so the difference between "r" and "R" is just for the current
> "summary mode" session.

Yes.

> Curious, when does adaptive scoring kick in then? It does
> differentiate between "r" and "R" doesn't it?

Adaptive scoring kicks in as you're leaving the summary buffer, I think.

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