Paul Johnson posted on Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:00:13 -0700 as excerpted: > Is it possible to modify how much a watched thread gets bumped? I'd > like to score a watched thread up by 100 instead of 9999 so other > scoring rules on watched threads don't have to go to extremes to take > effect.
Well, yes, and no. It's possible to set whatever scoring you want, per thread, per post, per author, per keyword in subject, etc... tho as implemented, scoring can only occur on certain headers (basically, the ones normally available in overviews, pulled in when pulling overviews/headers, there's no support for scoring bodies or whole-message-download-only headers, tho that has been a long-standing feature-request bug I myself filed, from before scoring when it was only kill and watch, but ranked "bluesky", and since I'm not a coder...). What pan calls "watched" and "ignored" are simply names defined for a specifically defined score level, positive and negative, with associated specific menu action shortcuts to assigning that specific score. So you can assign whatever score you want, and if the scoring sum reaches the (arbitrary) scoring defined as watched or ignored, well, it qualifies as watched or ignored, regardless of whether it was a single scoring qualifier that got it there, or the cumulative action of a hundred or a thousand different scoring qualifiers. Thus, you can certainly modify by how much a thread gets bumped, but if it doesn't reach the score (arbitrarily) defined as watched or ignored, well, it isn't watched or ignored, and if it does, well, it is. It's just a name for that particular level of score, with a couple shortcuts to trigger it, nothing more. So now you need to know how to score a thread, right? To score a thread to something other than watched or ignored, simply add a scoring rule, on the second line of the dialog, set "and the article's" REFERENCES, CONTAINS, and either take the default or set the appropriate message-id. (The default is the message-id for the currently selected message, so you'll be scoring any replies to it. If it's the thread starter, you'll therefore be scoring the thread, while if it's a reply in a larger thread, you'll be scoring the subthread. Either way, it's any replies, with "replies" based on whether they have the post's message-ID in the references header.) Be sure to set the desired score and any other setting as appropriate before hitting the "add" or "add and rescore" button! =:^) But, if the score doesn't reach the level defined by pan as "watched" or "ignored", it won't be watched or ignored, simply scored as the score pan was directed to score it, so yes, it's possible to adjust the assigned score, but no, it's not then defined as watched or ignored, so it's not modifying by how much a post/thread defined as watched (or ignored) gets bumped, because watched or ignored is defined to be a specific score, and if that's not reached, well, it's not watched or ignored, simply scored. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
