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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, yantar92 <at> posteo.net, 61325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:43:35 +0200
> 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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