Re: How many people mark spam in gmane groups?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
> Eureka!  g-s-p-n was the variable I was looking for[1].  But now I'm
> even more confused about s-r-g-r.  It seems there are several ways
> to have s-r-g invoked:
> 
> * Set the group/topic parameter.  In this case s-r-g-r is irrelevant
>   because you've already indicated precisely what groups are Gmane
>   groups.

Yup.  s-r-g-r was in place before the spam.el integration, that's why
I left it in place.  With the doc changes you mention it should be
useful enough to keep.

I'll try to stick a reference to spam-report.el in the manual,
meanwhile.

> * Set g-s-p-n to indicate a regexp matching Gmane groups and
>   applying the g-g-s-e-p-r-g exit processor to those groups.  If the
>   regexp in g-s-p-n is accurate, s-r-g-r is irrelevant.

Yup.

> * Call s-r-g independent of spam.el.  In this case, s-r-g-r might be
>   useful, but the documentation doesn't make any sense:
> 
>     String matching Gmane newsgroups if wanted,
>     e.g. "^nntp+.*:gmane."[2] This is probably handled better with
>     group/topic parameters.
> 
>   It'd make more sense to say something like:
> 
>     Regexp matching Gmane newsgroups.  If you are using spam.el,
>     consider setting gnus-spam-process-newsgroups or
>     the gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-report-gmane group/topic
>     parameter instead.

Go ahead and make a patch of the docs you mention here and elsewhere
in this message and anything else you think needs work in
spam-report.el, I'll commit the patch.

> P.S. Why is the Mail-Followup-To set to "Jon Ericson
>      <Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov>, ding@gnus.org"?  When I hit 'F' to
>      reply, the mail was to be sent to me and CCed to the list.  Is
>      this what is intended?

No idea, I just hit 'f' on your message.

> Footnotes: 
> [1]  The comment "This only makes sense for mail groups." is now
>      outdated, by the way.

Yup.

> [2]  I think this should be "^nntp\+.*:gmane\." since + and . are
>      special characters.

Agreed.  I work with Perl regular expressions too much, it tends to
confuse me quite a bit when I write Lisp.

Thanks
Ted