On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 08:22:04PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:07:59AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson (dis)graced my inbox with: > > I still feel very dumb on this. > > Can someone explain to an idiot what the scoring is for > > and how you use it. > > The manual assumes you know. > > I assume it is some kind of super-filtering technique. > > I don't actually use scoring myself, but it is a neat idea. > > Each message has a score. The score is determined by rules that you set > up. So if you hate emails from "Joe", you can set up a rule that gives > messages from Joe a really low score. > > After a message gets it's score, you can take action based on the score. > for instance, you might want to put messages with a high score into a > special folder like ~/mail/important or something, and messages with a > low score into the garbage. > Mmm. How is that better than other filtering techniques? What you say sounds plausible, but is it the whole story ?
-- Regards Cliff
