Re: spam.el is a bit aggressive loading/saving spam-stat data

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Well, it doesn't need to be called often, and it could be added to the
> save-newsrc hook.  I just thought most people would want their stats
> up-to-date on disk, but I can see why it would be good to minimize
> disk access.  Maybe we could allow both behaviors?
>
> What do you think about a new variable spam-stat-save-frequency with
> choices "often" and "with-newsrc"?  I guess we don't need "like a
> maniac" as an option :)

The only problem is that when you quit Gnus without saving, then the
backends might have reclassified an article from spam to non-spam (and
moved the article physically from one group to another), but the
scores are unchanged.  Depending on how you want to look at it, it
seems to me that the only good solution is this:

Only save spam-stat data when newsrc is saved, and add some elisp to
.newsrc-dribble whenever articles are processed.  Then the information
should be more or less in sync, as .newsrc-dribble gets autosaved...
Perhaps .newsrc-dribble gets saved whenever the backends save
something, I haven't investigated.  That would be the perfect
solution, then.

Alex.