Reporting spam for gmane.org

[nbareil+gmane@plop.dyndns.org (Nicolas Bareil)]

Hi,

 Background : I  have a personnal news server  which retrieve feeds from
different servers (As news.gmane.org).

I use spam-report.el  to mark article as spam for  gmane groups. So this
function is called :

,----
| (defun spam-report-gmane (article)
|   "Report an article as spam through Gmane"
|   (interactive "nEnter the article number: ")
|   (when (and gnus-newsgroup-name
| 	     (or (null spam-report-gmane-regex)
| 		 (string-match spam-report-gmane-regex gnus-newsgroup-name)))
|     (gnus-message 6 "Reporting spam article %d to spam.gmane.org..." article)
|       (if spam-report-gmane-use-article-number
| 	  (spam-report-url-ping "spam.gmane.org" 
| 		    (format "/%s:%d"
| 			    (gnus-group-real-name gnus-newsgroup-name)
| 			    article))
| 	(with-current-buffer nntp-server-buffer
| 	  (gnus-request-head article gnus-newsgroup-name)
| 	  (goto-char (point-min))
| 	  (if (re-search-forward spam-report-gmane-spam-header nil t)
| 	      (let* ((host (match-string 1))
| 		     (report (match-string 2))
| 		     (url (format "http://%s%s" host report)))
| 		(gnus-message 10 "Reporting spam through URL %s..." url)
| 		(spam-report-url-ping host report))
| 	    (gnus-message 10 "Could not find X-Report-Spam in article %d..."
| 			  article))))))
`----

By   default,  spam-report-gmane-use-article-number  doesn't   exist  so
spam-report.el tries to  get the article number (On  *my* news server) and
contact spam.gmane.org. 

But the  article number is different  between nntp://news.gmane.org/ and
nntp://my.news.server/ so legitimate article are marked as spam.

Could we just change the default setting, or write a warning in the Gnus
manual ?

PS : Personnaly, I've just put this in my ~/.gnus :
(setq spam-report-gmane-use-article-number nil)

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