Re: Gnus: Permanently killing a thread?, Re: Gnus: Permanently killing a thread?, Re: Gnus: Permanently killing a thread?

[James Thomas]

Christopher Howard wrote:

> Hi, in Gnus I frequently use gnus-summary-kill-same-subject (C-k) to
> kill threads that are of no interest to me. However, when I am reading
> news the next day, I have to deal again with new messages from that
> thread. I'm wondering if I have a mechanism in Gnus to permanently
> hide a thread.
>
> In the manual, am seeing a lot of information about thread scoring,
> but I'm not sure if/how that is something I can leverage toward this
> end.

Yes. I just use:

  (setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring '(word))

The default value of gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist includes killing,
which means that manual scoring of this sort:

>> ..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).

...is unnecessary for me, but you should be able to use 'L s'.

> 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?

Scoring is orthogonal to marks and the score files may be synced.

Christopher Howard wrote:

>> 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.
>
> I'm working through the manual sections on scoring, and it says that
> messages below a certain score threshold are marked as read. So I
> think that would take care of the concern I have, since it appears
> that (somehow or other) messages marked "read" are also marked as such
> on the IMAP server itself.

Yes. The 'Y' mark makes the message read when you 'c' or 'q'.

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