Silly Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> Vox wrote on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:14:12PM -0500 : >> >> Silly Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> PD: no need to CC me on your replies, my mail program highlights any >> >> emails that are answers to my own emails. >> > Can you put a screenshot somewhere? I'd like to see that. I see you're >> > using gnus, so it shouldn't be impossible to make mutt do that as >> > well. >> http://people.gnulinux.org.mx/vox/shot_09-10-02_180405.jpg > > Very nice, but I only see three messages. And what's the third pane on > the right top for? It only has my name in it and can't quite figure out > what it's supposed to be doing. Ok, this shot is better...that one only was showing 3 msgs because that was all there was in this ml at the time :) This is with a.o.l.mandrake which has more traffic, at least in the last 2hr :) http://people.gnulinux.org.mx/vox/shot_09-10-02_210637.jpg The pane on the top right is the Tree view...it shows the distribution of a thread, who answered to who (according to the References header). That way you know what's going with ease...it's one of the things I love the most about gnus, actually :) >> The top line is a normal-scored (0 points) thread, goes white and >> each mail in it gets auto-expunged (deleted) when it gets to be 7 >> days old. > > Straightforward. I do scoring myself, but I don't take any action based > on that score yet. If I were to do auto-expunging, I would probably do > it after 30 or 45 days. I like to keep a rather large backlog of > Cooker. It's much faster to look through that than to look through the > online archives. On that I agree. The only thing is...when something is important to me, it gets saved for longer :) Usually mail that manages to get alive for a month ends up in a CD (I have CDs with mail from 1989 that I transfered from floppies...info packrat that I am :) >> Second line (your mail) is a highest-scored thread, because a) it >> has posts by me and b) all @mandrakesoft.com authors get automatic >> high score in all my mdk mailing lists (so I know who has the last >> word :) So both scores get added to get to highest-score (anything >> over 9,000 points) > > Ok, that makes a little bit of sense. To see what mine looks like, > take a look at http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/mutt.html and > click on the three links for the Sample Screen Shots. You'll also I guess the ones with the sL are the ones with scores, right? > note that you and Ben were not scored at the time that I made those > screenshots. Both of you are now :) Hehehe I've been talking too much lately <chuckle> :) Hadn't been this active since the 7.x cooker times :) > Plus I also score in single digits. I used to do that too, back when I was scoring by hand...but with adaptive scoring (gnus scores stuff according to what I do with the mail instead of me giving it scores), I've found it's a lot more accurate to what I think when I use high numbers. > I think I WILL adjust the highlighting based on score though. That > certainly helps to identify interesting posts (ie Linus, AC, Ingo, > etc) Indeed...scoring+highlighting makes it a lot easier to go through the 900+ emails/newsposts I go through every day :) >> Third line is a high-score (between 3,000 and 9,000 points) thread >> because I've posted to it. > > I think I get it. It's only showing threads, not individual > messages. Actually, in that shot it was single-email threads. There was only 3 emails in the folder because it was the 4th or 5th visit to the folder in the same hour :) > I would be tempted to call that a "folded" view. Mutt has the ability > to expand/collapse threads, however, the score it shows is only of the > original message of the thread. It doesn't seem to let the top score > through as the predominant score of the thread (ie, yours seems to be > scoring threads, whereas mutt only seems to score individual > messages...I'll have to look more into that...maybe those developers > aren't so crazy after all for using gnus :) I do score by individual mails, not by thread. But you can do thread scoring too, or use both at the same time. What I do is: a) Score on authors b) Score on thread And then each email gets highlighted according to the total score it gets. For instance, there are authors that have high scores (*@mandrakesoft.com for example) and that get highlighted even in threads that I'm not paying attention to and have negative scores. When that happens, the whole thread gets marked as I-don't-care, except for the mail from the mdk people. That way I get a chance to see what's going on in the thread without having to go through it all :) >> Uninteresting threads (those I've marked read without opening) get >> negative scores and are colored an ugly brown. > > Which I don't see any of those. You see em in the new shot now :) >> Posts with between 0 and 3,000 points gets the same color as a 0 >> points thread, but doesn't get auto-expunged (deleted) when the >> messages get over 7 days old. Depending on the score, it gets >> deleted after 1 month, 2 months or never. >> All of this scoring is done automatically as I read, of course :) >> Vox, who loves his gnus :) > > If I wasn't such a happy vi user, I'd try it out. But I have such a > hard time navigating in emacs because I'm so comfortable with vi. Viper is for people like you...viper is the vi-keys mode for emacs...actually, the main gnus developer is a viper user :) Vox, who thinks that vi* usage can be cured :) -- Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger.... For info on safety in the BDSM lifestyle http://www.the-vox.com Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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