Re: How many people mark spam in gmane groups?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
> Is there an easy way to set up the group properties for all of my
> Gmane groups?  

Put all of them under a topic and then customize the topic properties
like you would customize a group.  It works very nicely.

> I couldn't get spam-report-gmane-regex to work for some reason.[1]
> It seems like this should be a property of the server, not the
> individual groups.  Or perhaps we are really looking at a new sort
> of protocol built on top of nntp.  At any rate, I would prefer not
> to have to twiddle with the properties of each new Gmane group I
> add.

> But enough of my griping; this stuff is great.  I might even see
> about ditching my current nnmail-split-fancy system and try the
> other bits of spam.el.
> 
> Jon
> 
> Footnotes: [1] Most likely I screwed up the regex.  I'd rather set
> properties in any case, 'cause it seems less of a hack.

spam-report.el doesn't really do anything automatic, you have to load
spam.el for that.  When you load spam.el, you can use the Gmane spam
processor for the Gmane groups (there is a list of spam processors per
group/topic/regex you can customize).  Then, when you exit the group,
spam-report-gmane will be called for every article you marked as spam
in the group.

spam.el is harmless if you don't use any spam/ham processors, and
don't use spam-split in your mail splitting.

On its own, spam-report.el could be used if you manually iterate over
the list of spam articles in the gnus-newsgroup-spam-marked list at
summary exit.  That's what spam.el does, it just automates things.

Thanks
Ted