Re: How many people mark spam in gmane groups?

[Jon Ericson <Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
>>   It'd make more sense to say something like:
>> 
>>     Regexp matching Gmane newsgroups.  If you are using spam.el,
>>     consider setting gnus-spam-process-newsgroups or
>>     the gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-report-gmane group/topic
>>     parameter instead.
>
> Go ahead and make a patch of the docs you mention here and elsewhere
> in this message and anything else you think needs work in
> spam-report.el, I'll commit the patch.

Ok:

diff -u spam-report.el.old spam-report.el
--- spam-report.el.old  2003-04-30 12:04:51.000000000 -0700
+++ spam-report.el      2003-04-30 12:08:38.000000000 -0700
@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@
   "Spam reporting configuration.")
 
 (defcustom spam-report-gmane-regex nil
-  "String matching Gmane newsgroups if wanted, e.g. \"^nntp+.*:gmane.\"
-This is probably handled better with group/topic parameters."
+  "Regexp matching Gmane newsgroups, e.g. \"^nntp\\+.*:gmane\\.\"
+If you are using spam.el, consider setting gnus-spam-process-newsgroups 
+or the gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-report-gmane group/topic parameter 
+instead."
   :type 'regexp
   :group 'spam-report)
 
diff -u gnus.el.old gnus.el
--- gnus.el.old 2003-04-30 12:24:35.000000000 -0700
+++ gnus.el     2003-04-30 12:22:48.000000000 -0700
@@ -1875,8 +1875,7 @@
    "*Groups in which to automatically process spam or ham articles with
 a backend on summary exit.  If non-nil, this should be a list of group
 name regexps that should match all groups in which to do automatic
-spam processing, associated with the appropriate processor.  This only makes sense
-for mail groups."
+spam processing, associated with the appropriate processor."
    :variable-group spam
    :variable-type '(repeat :tag "Spam/Ham Processors" 
                           (list :tag "Spam Summary Exit Processor Choices"


>> P.S. Why is the Mail-Followup-To set to "Jon Ericson
>>      <Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov>, ding@gnus.org"?  When I hit 'F' to
>>      reply, the mail was to be sent to me and CCed to the list.  Is
>>      this what is intended?
>
> No idea, I just hit 'f' on your message.

Ok.  For this message, I did a `C-c C-f C-a' to see what would happen.
Looks like it did the right thing.  I wonder where the problem is?

Jon
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