Re: Reporting spam for gmane.org

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, nbareil+gmane@plop.dyndns.org wrote:

> By default, spam-report-gmane-use-article-number doesn't exist so
> spam-report.el tries to get the article number (On *my* news server)
> and contact spam.gmane.org.
> 
> But the article number is different between nntp://news.gmane.org/
> and nntp://my.news.server/ so legitimate article are marked as spam.
> 
> Could we just change the default setting, or write a warning in the
> Gnus manual ?
> 
> PS : Personnaly, I've just put this in my ~/.gnus :
> (setq spam-report-gmane-use-article-number nil)

I fixed the manual, the diff is appended for your reference.  Thanks
for the report.

I think the default should be to use the article number because the
vast majority of people don't run their own news server.

Ted

Index: gnus.texi
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--- gnus.texi   8 Aug 2003 16:29:26 -0000       6.540
+++ gnus.texi   29 Aug 2003 15:41:01 -0000
@@ -22676,7 +22676,21 @@
 customizing the group parameters or the
 @code{gnus-spam-process-newsgroups} variable.  When this symbol is
 added to a group's @code{spam-process} parameter, the spam-marked
-articles groups will be reported to the Gmane administrators.
+articles groups will be reported to the Gmane administrators via a
+HTTP request.
+
+Gmane can be found at @uref{http://gmane.org}.
+
+@end defvar
+
+@defvar spam-report-gmane-use-article-number
+
+This variable is @code{t} by default.  Set it to @code{nil} if you are
+running your own news server, for instance, and the local article
+numbers don't correspond to the Gmane article numbers.  When
+@code{spam-report-gmane-use-article-number} is @code{nil},
+@code{spam-report.el} will use the @code{X-Report-Spam} header that
+Gmane provides.
 
 @end defvar