Re: Configuring spam.el: A few questions

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>
>>> "Unread" are those that are not marked read, expired, ticked, etc.
>>
>> Hmm, isn't an expired article considered "read"?
>
> It is quite confusing that "read" is used as a category (read versus
> unread) but also as a specific mark that is part of the "read"
> category.

Yes, it is confusing, and I was confused.  In fact, I meant to say
"isn't a ticked article considered unread?"  I saw expired and ticked
grouped together and thought that one of them must be wrong, but I
think it is ticked that is wrong.  Right? ... Fumbles through the info
pages...  Hmm, from the node called (not surprisingly) "Unread
Articles", we have

|    The following marks mark articles as (kinda) unread, in one form or
| other.
| 
| `!'
|      Marked as ticked (`gnus-ticked-mark').
| 
...
| 
| `?'
|      Marked as dormant (`gnus-dormant-mark').
| 
...
| 
| `SPACE'
|      Marked as unread (`gnus-unread-mark').
| 
|      "Unread articles" are articles that haven't been read at all yet.

The last two lines seem to contradict the first line, so maybe there
is no strict definition of what "unread" means.

Dan