Scoring Down Usenet Spam in Gnus

For some days over the last few weeks, some of the newsgroups that I was following was overrun with spam.  My article counts for some of the newsgroups was in the high hundreds even as I was catching up with the posts regularly.

Fortunately, Gnus offers  a way to score down the spam and even expunge the articles when the score is lower than a threshold.

Here's one way of doing it.

Scoring in Gnus messes up Digest mode

While reading news and mail in Gnus, I started to score authors in the Digest mails I subscribe to.

Looks like that is not working correctly, as I thought it should.

The entire digest in the Summay Buffer is highlighted instead of the articles from the specific person (which is what I score on).

Thinking this through, obviously the digest is a compendium of a number of mails with lots of headers stripped into 1 file, so the ticks seen by Gnus is on the entire digest I guess.

& you do have to hit C-d to see the articles individually anyway.

Oh well, so scoring on mail digests is not a good idea.