Thank you Duncan for providing a lot of useful information about scoring. mick
-----Original Message----- From: Pan-users [mailto:pan-users-bounces+poolcover=gmail....@nongnu.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Sent: 25 April 2017 08:41 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Kill files Dieter Britz posted on Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:00:15 +0200 as excerpted: > People talk about setting up a kill file for posters to news groups > that annoy others, by off topic postings etc. Is it possible to do > that with pan? This repeats the same idea as the replies by HH, DG and Pedro in the other subthread, but with a bit more explanation of what pan's actually doing and why, and why it's like binary-choice killfiling (killfiled or not) but better. =:^) First, let's understand the difference between a fine-grained scoring mechanism like pan has, where if desired the effects of many scoring rules can be applied together to arrive at a final score for a post, which then can be used to apply some action (like simply hiding the post, or marking it read, or deleting it, or on the other end, hilighting it with various colors depending on how high it scores, or automatically downloading the post to cache, or saving its attachments), vs a hard binary or trinary filter mechanism, which will act immediately on the first filter that applies to either kill (generally hide and mark-read, sometimes delete, depending on the implementation) or not, possibly (the trinary case) with the addition of a watch flag (and perhaps auto- download depending on implementation) if the post isn't killed. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
