Re: How to load spam.el just for gmane reporting?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, sb@dod.no wrote:

>>>>>> Ted Stern <stern+gnus@cray.com>:
> 
> [snip!]
>>    ;; Set up spam reporting
>>    (require 'spam)
>>    (require 'spam-report)
> 
> So spam-use-* is not neccessary?  Perhaps the manual should be
> changed to reflect this?

spam-use-* is necessary for any normal use of spam.el.  What you're
doing, loading it just for the spam exit processor (gmane reporting in
this case) is not wrong, but I would probably isolate the commentary
to the as-of-yet-unwritten spam-report.el documentation :)

You do have to set spam-install-hooks if you don't have any of the
spam-use-* variables set.

> Putting spam-process into all gmane groups' group parameters, is too
> much work, and is something I'd have to remember when creating new
> groups. 

You can also do it by regular expressions I believe (see
gnus-spam-process-newsgroups).

> So I guess I'll have to figure out how to set up the
> gnus-spam-process-destinations variable.

gnus-spam-process-destinations only applies to where processed spam
will go after processing (it will be moved), probably not what you
want in a gmane group.  I would leave it nil for gmane groups.

> How do I know if the setting of gnus-spam-process-newsgroups "took"?
> I don't think it did, because the exit was too fast.
> 
> It wasn't held up by doing 6 HTTP requests to gmane.

Increase gnus-verbose and you should see the messages about reporting
spam to gmane.

HTH
Ted