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30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
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Reported by: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 16:02:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Found in version 30.0.50
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #263 received at 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> 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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