Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:

> That sounds very good!  I didn't know about this spam flag (I didn't
> read gnus.ding for several months).  That makes things a lot easier.
> At the moment I am relying on the group name -- that sucks.  :)

If we do not move the mails away, however, we need to make sure that
every mail is processed only once.  Would it be possible to add an
additional header or flag when processing a mail?

The alternative to using a flag is one magic group such as mail.spam:
Process all new mail, move it to mail.spam.  If the user then moves
mail from a group to mail.spam, we can undo the "good" scores for that
mail and redo a "bad" score for it -- and the other way around.  The
current approach is very much like this (although still incomplete).

Alex.