How don't use Gnus adaptive scoring in some newsgroups?

Question

If I do:

(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t)

The adaptive scoring works properly, but for all groups.

Then I tried this, but without success:

(setq gnus-parameters
  '(("mail\\..*"
     (gnus-use-adaptive-scoring nil))
    ("gmane\\..*"
     (gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t))))

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

Well, it appears to work for me. I used this setting:

(setq gnus-parameters 
  '(("regressions.*"
     (gnus-use-adaptive-scoring nil))
    ("general-personal.*"
     (gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t))))

Perhaps your regexps don't match your group names? The above regexps will match groups that look like mail. and gmane. (the . being a real period).

The way I tested it was to enter each of the two groups and did an eval on the variable M-: gnus-use-adaptive-scoring RET - though you could also just do help on the variable C-h v gnus-use-adaptive-scoring RET.

Perhaps what you want is not to turn adaptive-scoring off, but just to turn scoring off. AFAIK, adaptive-scoring is Gnus trying to figure out scoring for the articles, but not the actual use of scoring.

So maybe this does what you want?

(setq gnus-parameters 
  '(("mail\\..*"
     (gnus-use-scoring nil))
    ("gmane\\..*"
     (gnus-use-scoring t))))

Answer 2

You could try to put (adapt nil) in the score file of all the groups where you do not want adaptative scoring activated, and you can use topics to set up a common score file for a bunch of groups, as described here.