"CB" == Christopher Brian Colohan Christopher writes:
CB May I ask how you teach gnus this trick? I use gnus, but have
CB not delved that deeply into the documentation...

As you might expect, it's already built in, but obscu

L-f-s-t ret

which Lowers the score on followups, substring, temporary.

IIRC adaptive scoring probably needs to be enabled for this to work.

See the manual for details...

,----[ (info "(gnus)Summary Score Commands") ]
| `f'
| Score on followups--this matches the author name, and adds
| scores to the followups to this author. (Using this key
| leads to the creation of `ADAPT' files.)
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