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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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> Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:19:47 -0500
>
> > 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?
Done.
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