On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:14:12 +0000, Duncan wrote:
[....]
> Similarly, it's no big deal to tell pan to watch your own posts, or
> those of any other author, since that's a single entry in the score
> file. [....]
OK, I'll bite. What are the fine points of how I do that? (I mean
additions, colors, and whatever I haven't thought of yet.) Let me
backtrack.
I knew that scoring has something to do with watching, and how to
spell it. I can guess that you mean the file named "Score" in .pan2, but
that daunted me.
I thought to try looking through the list of choices when I right-
clicked on one of my own posts, and found "Add a scoring rule."
Following my nose from there, I started playing with adding
numbers to my score -- discovering quite soon that I got a variety of
highlighting colors, and that (as I should have anticipated) Pan
interpreted all my obsolete addresses as different authors. (I did half-
recall, half re-find Colors under Add Preferences.)
That was enough, especially when done after sorting by author, to
pick up most -- and did hit threads which I didn't start, but had
participated in. The last was a real help.
So what I still don't know is whether there are still more tricks
to this, such as optimal numbers (or numbers which a large plurality of
users find optimal in practice) to add to particular authors, subjects,
or whatever. And I don't see what most of the (doubtless highly
practical) elements you can score by are good for.
I recall talk of a FAQ, and there is a thread from 2007, but no
link from the Pan home page to a manual ....
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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