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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
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Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:14:19 +0000 |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> That may be a key to making progress. If some readers can't understand
> the technical information, that is indisputably a problem. The question
> is how to fix it.
>
> Can you show is concretel what technical information is hard to understand
> for those who don't get the joke? I have never used GNUS.
The paragraph in question is
8 Scoring
Other people use “kill files”, but we here at Gnus Towers like scoring
better than killing, so we’d rather switch than fight. They do
something completely different as well, so sit up straight and pay
attention!
The technical information is that unlike the concept of
"killing" [*] that may be familiar to Usenet software users, Gnus
introduces the idea of "scoring" [**]. Scoring is a more powerful (and
also faster [***] compared to killing. Gnus recommends using scoring
over killing.
I had to read forward, backward, and specifically search for keywords to
understand the above.
[*] "killing" in Gnus is, AFAIU, hiding (not deleting) threads that
match some criteria.
[**] First mentioned in 3.7 Group Score, but actually more general (does
not only apply to Groups). Score is a number assigned to Gnus
threads according to a number of criteria - each criteria (like
matching some words in subject/body) will increase/decrease the
total score. Gnus can then sort threads according to their score and
even hide threads with score below certain threshold.
[***] 8.13 Kill Files
In short, kill processing is a lot slower (and I do mean _a
lot_) than score processing, so it might be a good idea to rewrite
your kill files into score files.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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