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bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
bug#61325: 30.0.50; Jokes in GNUS manual |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:50:01 -0500 |
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> A kill file (also killfile, bozo bin or twit list) is a file used
> by some Usenet reading programs to discard articles matching some
> unwanted patterns of subject, author, or other header
> lines. Adding a person or subject to one's kill file means that
> person or topic will be ignored by one's newsreader in the
> future. By extension, the term may be used for a decision to
> ignore the person or subject in other media.
I see. But the manual has to tell the reader this, if it mentions
kill files at all.
> More advanced newsreader software like Gnus sometimes provides a
> more sophisticated form of filter known as scoring, where score
> files are maintained which use fuzzy logic to apply arbitrarily
> complex overlapping sets of rules to score articles up or down,
> with articles being properly killed (ignored by the newsreader)
> only when their weighted score drops below a user-defined
> threshold.
That seems like a useful feature. But the GNUS manual has to explain it.
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