Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> The functions you have are great, we just need to figure out how to
> preserve the state of an article marked as spam, for the
> spam<->not_spam transitions, or to go with the original idea of
> expiring all spam mail that's been processed already.

Maybe we could move spam into mail.spam, with expirable.  If the user
then moves mail from or to mail.spam, this indicates transitions and
must be handled immediately (instead of waiting for summary buffer
exit).  What do you think?  Is that possible to do in a
backend-independent way?

> Will your stats code be a part of Gnus?  Would you like to merge it
> with spam.el, so all the spam code is in one place?

I have no idea.  I would like to contribute it, once it is "done".  :)
That includes the FSF paperwork.  Once I think it is "done", I will
write to assign@gnu.org.  (Assuming that spam.el is part of Gnus which
is also part of Emacs.)

Alex.