GNU bug report logs - #61325
30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual

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Package: emacs;

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):

From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> posteo.net>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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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