Re: Google Groups "star" feature

[Brian Adkins]

Timo Geusch <tnewsSPAMMENOT@unixconsult.co.uk> writes:

> Brian Adkins <brian@ubuntu.sys76.local> writes:
>
>> I'm attempting to transition from reading usenet via Google Groups to
>> using Gnus. One Google Groups feature I like is the ability to "star" a
>> thread so that I can easily see if a thread I'm interested in has new
>> posts.
>>
>> What would be the easiest way to have a particular thread standout among
>> all the threads with new articles in Gnus?
>
> Have a look at the scoring mechanism and bump up the score of the
> threads you're interested in?

Ah, I think the menu commands I used were only for the session. I used
the following:

I s f p

for "increase", "subject", "fuzzy", "permanent", and this modified the
score file, so I expect they'll "stick" now. I'm not sure what visual
indication I'll get in the summary (I'd prefer to sort by date rather
than score), but if there is none, the tick feature will probably work.