[Pan-users] Re: Customizing scoring defaults

[Duncan]

Paul Johnson posted on Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:56:01 -0700 as excerpted:

> On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:38:53 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> So now you need to know how to score a thread, right?  To score a
>> thread to something other than watched or ignored, simply add a scoring
>> rule, on the second line of the dialog, set "and the article's"
>> REFERENCES, CONTAINS, and either take the default or set the
>> appropriate message-id.
> 
> OK, that's what I'm looking for.  So how do I change the scoring
> defaults done by the "Watch Thread" and "Ignore Thread" macros so
> they're not worthless?  Alternately, how do I remove those and replace
> them with my own?  Having to manually add a scoring rule through the
> long-form dialogue is time consuming and annoying to say the least.

AFAIK that's be a source code change if you were to do it.  Not too bad.  
But it shouldn't be an issue.  See, ignored/watched are /supposed/ to be 
extremes.  And if for some reason you don't like it that way, it's all 
relative, so just multiply your other scores by 1000 or 10,000 or 
whatever.  No big deal... (tho the score color coding is hard-coded to 
specific ranges as well, so if you want to use that with ignored/watched, 
you'd need to change the source for either the color code ranges or 
ignored/watched).

I'm not a coder, but I do expect even I could find and change it in the 
source code, if I wanted/needed to.  It should be a simply patch that you 
can script... or keep as a change-set in your own git repo, if you're 
pulling from KHaley's git, like most of us that compile from source are 
doing.

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