Re: filtering nntp messages

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:33:11 +0200 asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) wrote: 

AS> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:06:56 -0500, Harry wrote:
>> Some nntp groups I like to frequent like comp.unix.shell have been
>> nearly destroyed by spam.  I'm guessing gnus is capable of filtering
>> all that mess... but a few cursory tries at the manual have come up
>> dry.

AS> Uhm, look a scoring?

You can filter nntp with spam.el, same as any other message source.  You
just can't move spam articles out of a group, but you can copy them to
another backend or feed directly into the spam.el backends for spam
training.

Statistical spam backends will require fetching every message body,
though, which could be painful.  Unfortunately that's the best solution
nowadays.  You may want to look into integrating some anti-spam solution
with leafnode on arrival or something like it (I don't know if it's
possible!).  Then you can just score on headers, with spam.el or not.

Ted