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Re: gnus scoring insanity
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Adam Sjøgren |
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Re: gnus scoring insanity |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:07:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) XEmacs/21.4.22 (linux) |
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:45:08 -0600, notbob@bb.nothome.com wrote:
>> I use scoring very simply: To not see articles from people I've becomed
>> tired of.
> Feel free to include me.
I thought about using you as the example, but decided against it. Apart
from your tone of voice, your input is valuable, I think.
>> To this purpose, I have a single file, called ~/News/all.SCORE, which
>> contains this¹:
> Interesting. Was I supposed to manually create the all.SCORE file?
You seemed not to like to use the commands in Gnus, so I described how I
use it. There is more than one way to do it.
> If so, this has become a major issue, it not being a first time I've
> created necessary files. Problem is, I've yet to find one word of
> instruction in the gnus manual that I should create any files and what
> and where those files should be named/located.
You can if you want to - if you don't you can use the commands listed in
the manual.
>> But I guess that was in the half you skipped.
> Oooh... you can be a bit salty too. ;)
;-)
>>> "The current score file is by default the group's local score file,
>>> even if no such score file actually exists. To insert score commands
>>> into some other score file (e.g. `all.SCORE'), you must first make
>>> this score file the current one."
>> Which part of that paragraph is unclear to you?
> All of it! What current score file?
The score file that is currently in use, is how I interpret it.
> Does it have an actual name and location?
That depends on whether it exists, as it says above. If it doesn't, it
doesn't have a name and location until created.
> Does gnus create it or am I supposed to guess about that issue again?
Depends on what you want, I guess.
> If I am, I need to know the file name to create and where. I don't.
So, use the commands in the manual.
> Same questions for the local score file. "some other score file"? I
> don't want possible examples, I need concrete information. Last but
> not least, what is "this" score file?
Some other score file you want the score commands inserted into rather
than the current, whether it exists or not.
> The whole paragraph is useless.
That's a very broad statement. To you, yes. To me, it kind of almost
makes sense.
> Near as I can tell, some unnamed default score file is actually some
> other unnamed score file, EVEN IF NO SUCH SCORE FILE EXISTS!! That's a
> killer, that one. Lastly, to insert commands into SOME OTHER(!)
> unnamed score file, you must first make THIS OTHER SCORE FILE (????)
> "the current one". Who's on first!?
Reference manuals are boring to write. I think it's okay to inject some
fun into it.
>> In ~/News/, unless you ask Gnus to put them somewhere else (by setting
>> gnus-kill-files-directory²).
> I'll hafta do that, as that exact same file name and dir is used by
> slrn, which I still have in case I lose my gnus mind.
If it confuses slrn then, yeah, better move them.
>> They were probably obvious to the author at the time.
> Or they were on drugs. ;)
Written many reference manuals, have you? :-)
>> Which terms are the ones you consider 'proprietary'?!
> All the ones having to do with emacs which I don't know the meaning of.
What does 'proprietary' signify in that context?
> Don't take my rants personally. I sometimes get frustrated, but still
> slog on.
Ditto. I'm sure you would get less annoying replies if you wrote less
annoying rants.
;-),
Adam
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