Should I look into scoring emails with #Emacs #GNUS?

[oantolin@mathstodon.xyz]

Should I look into scoring emails with #Emacs #GNUS? I think I want to see all emails (emails are all I use GNUS for at the moment), but wouldn't mind seeing the good ones first. What experiences have people had with scoring?

[hmelman@mastodon.social]

@oantolin yes.

I use gnus scoring on emacs mail lists to sort good threads first, to bold authors I like, to push down authors I don’t.

[paniash@mstdn.social]

@oantolin No answer from me unfortunately, but GNUS seems enticing to me with all the features I hear about. Ofc, I've also heard that it locks up emacs when sending email (amongst other things). It'd be interesting to hear what other peoples' experiences have been with GNUS. #emacs

[ericsfraga@fediscience.org]

@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.

[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.

#gnus #Emacs

[tzz@infosec.exchange]

@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.

Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.

People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,