[Pan-users] Re: Can I tell Pan, with one command, to watch many threads?

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:14:12 +0000, Duncan wrote:
        [....] 
> Similarly, it's no big deal to tell pan to watch your own posts, or
> those of any other author, since that's a single entry in the score
> file.  [....] 

        OK, I'll bite. What are the fine points of how I do that? (I mean 
additions, colors, and whatever I haven't thought of yet.) Let me 
backtrack.

        I knew that scoring has something to do with watching, and how to 
spell it. I can guess that you mean the file named "Score" in .pan2, but 
that daunted me.

        I thought to try looking through the list of choices when I right-
clicked on one of my own posts, and found "Add a scoring rule." 

        Following my nose from there, I started playing with adding 
numbers to my score -- discovering quite soon that I got a variety of 
highlighting colors, and that (as I should have anticipated) Pan 
interpreted all my obsolete addresses as different authors. (I did half-
recall, half re-find Colors under Add Preferences.)

        That was enough, especially when done after sorting by author, to 
pick up most -- and did hit threads which I didn't start, but had 
participated in. The last was a real help.

        So what I still don't know is whether there are still more tricks 
to this, such as optimal numbers (or numbers which a large plurality of 
users find optimal in practice) to add to particular authors, subjects, 
or whatever. And I don't see what most of the (doubtless highly 
practical) elements you can score by are good for.

        I recall talk of a FAQ, and there is a thread from 2007, but no 
link from the Pan home page to a manual ....





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