Hello, Does someone have a working setup that by default hides (e.g. by assigning them a low score) all posts to a group except if they start a new thread?
The Gnus documentation alludes that something like this is possible in the description of the orphan score atom [1]: > orphan > > The value of this entry should be a number. Articles that do not > have parents will get this number added to their scores. Imagine > you follow some high-volume newsgroup, like ‘comp.lang.c’. Most > likely you will only follow a few of the threads, also want to see > any new threads. > > You can do this with the following two score file entries: > > (orphan -500) > (mark-and-expunge -100) > > When you enter the group the first time, you will only see the new > threads. You then raise the score of the threads that you find > interesting (with I T or I S), and ignore (c y) the rest. Next > time you enter the group, you will see new articles in the > interesting threads, plus any new threads. > > I.e., the orphan score atom is for high-volume groups where a few > interesting threads which can’t be found automatically by ordinary > scoring rules exist. I edited the score file of one high-volume group to contain ((orphan 500) (mark -100)) Now when I enter this group, the value of the variable gnus-orphan-score is indeed 500, so the score file is taken into account. However, when I now call M-x gnus-score-find-trace on some articles, the orphan value is never applied. (Other global score rules are applied, so scoring generally does work and I use it.) Any idea of what could be the problem here? Any alternative ideas on how to deal with high-volume groups? Thanks Christoph [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/gnus.html#index-score-file-atoms
