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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:19:47 -0500

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  > 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.

  > [*] "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.

Can you rewrite the actual paragraph to include all that information?


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