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Mint wrote:
> On Mon 13 Aug 2007 12:43:40, Blinky the Shark < @ >
> wrote in :
>
>> Mint wrote:
>>
>>> On 09 Aug 2007 07:09, Mint wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 05 Aug 2007 18:15, John Wunderlich
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You should probably follow Noxonomus' advice and add the line:
>>>>> ReplyNotify=0
>>>>> to the [Misc] section of (when Xnews is not
>>>>> running). This will disable the internal "Replies to me"
>>>>> filter
>>>>
>>>> OK, I have done this too.
>>>>
>>>>> and allow you to create your own filter in .
>>>>
>>>> Now this is the bit I don't properly understand. Am I going to
>>>> have to explicitly score each reply to me if I want to mark
>>>> them out? I hope not!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone advise?
>>
>> About what? *How* to upscore direct replies to your posts?
>>
>
>
> OK, let me explain it. :-)
>
> I am concerned that 9999 sometimes overrides the score which
> might assign.
>
> Threads I take part in have the other posts scored as yellow 9999.
> But when I assign a score to certain posters in (for
> example, John's posts get assigned 3000) then this 3000 score
> sometimes gets overridden by the yellow 9999.
>
> I want to change it so my value predominates.
>
> I followed Noxonoumus's advice and added the line ReplyNotify=0 to
> the [Misc] section of " ". Then John wrote that this would
> allow me to create my own filter in .
>
> Well, I don't want to have to explicitly use "Add To Score File" for
> every thread which I post to and which I want to see all posts as
> highlighted by a score.
>
> So how can I do this?

I've never understood why people want to shotgun upscore an entire
thread just because they've posted to it; I precisely upscore direct
replies to me. That said, you can shotgun upscore the whole threads that you're
in with

Score: [whatever]
References: [your ID Token, as set in Xnews setup]


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