Re: How many people mark spam in gmane groups?

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

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> This is now set up through spam-report.el and spam.el; you can use
> the spam-report-gmane function in spam-report.el on its own if you
> wish or you can add the gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-report-gmane
> processor to the exit spam processors of your Gmane groups.  The
> Gmane groups have to be NNTP groups, I think, in order for the code
> to work (it uses nntp-server-buffer).  It seemed to work OK for me;
> I looked at the network traffic and saw the acknowledgment from
> gmane.org arriving for each reported article, so I'm pretty sure it
> reports the spam properly.

I finally got around to trying this out, and yes, it does report spam
properly.  (I'm one of the people who does spam reporting approval for
Gmane, so I can be certain about that. :)

Is there an easy way to set up the group properties for all of my
Gmane groups?  I couldn't get spam-report-gmane-regex to work for some
reason.[1] It seems like this should be a property of the server, not
the individual groups.  Or perhaps we are really looking at a new sort
of protocol built on top of nntp.  At any rate, I would prefer not to
have to twiddle with the properties of each new Gmane group I add.

But enough of my griping; this stuff is great.  I might even see about
ditching my current nnmail-split-fancy system and try the other bits
of spam.el.

Jon

Footnotes: 
[1]  Most likely I screwed up the regex.  I'd rather set properties in
     any case, 'cause it seems less of a hack.

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