Re: Google Groups "star" feature

[Timo Geusch]

Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

At least in this incarnation here, I get a '+' on the beginning of those
lines that have their scores bumped up. But this being gnus, you should
be able to customize this :). It's just that I'm in a fairly similar
situation as you (went back to gnus after using other newsreaders for a
few years) and I'm still tweaking things as well.