Subject: Which reason is good for using "scores"

From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 14:33:05 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

I tryed to imagine how to efective using scores for...Yes - for what?
Maybe somebody knows where I can find good explanation for this topic?

Regards

Murphy

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:50:01 -0700 (PDT)

*** Murphy ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I tryed to imagine how to efective using scores for...Yes - for what?
:) Maybe somebody knows where I can find good explanation for this topic?

There are a few reasons why one would like to use scores:

 - Say you are reading a high volume mailing list (newsgroup), like
comp.lang.c. You can use scores (and then sort by scores) to put the most
interesting threads to you in the very top (or bottom) of the index. In
some way you can use scoring to sort your folder by some kind of degree of
"interestingness" of messages in that folder. In a way, scores are very
dynamic.

 - Another application of scores is to use to filter messages, whenever
you want to filter a message that does not match a pattern, instead of
one that actually does (for example, something like "a message from a
specific domain which is not from [email-masked]). In that case you can
two score rules, one which assignes a score of 10 say to
"[email-masked]" and another one (after this), that assigns a score of
-5 to anyone from "domain.com". In that way, messages from
"[email-masked]" get a score of 5, and others from that domain get a
score of -5 (assuming no other score rules affect them). In that way, you
can use scores to filter messages by saying "save a message with this
score into this folder" or "delete a message with this score".

  These are just the ideas that come to my mind. I am sure others have
better ideas than these.

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From: Murphy <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:08:27 +0200 (MET DST)

>There are a few reasons why one would like to use scores:

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Thanks for your explanation. I must try this feature because it looks
that may be very usefull.

Regards

Murphy

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