Re: Buffer has a running process when reporting spam to gmane

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:06:40 +0200 hobbes@poukram.net (Rémi Letot) wrote: 

RL> I use gnus and gmane to read many mailing lists, and report spam
RL> whenever I can. I use gnus as packaged in emacs-snapshot on debian,
RL> which tracks emacs development (latest snapshot from 09/09/2009).

RL> Now I have experienced a small problem for some weeks : whenever I mark
RL> messages as spam in gnus, I have error messages when I quit the group:

RL> Buffer has a running process; kill it? (y or n) 

RL> The number of messages is equal to the number of marked messages. I
RL> answer "n" (multiple times if needed) and apparently the messages are
RL> correctly reported to gmane as shown in the messages buffer:

RL> Exiting summary buffer and applying spam rules
RL> Registering 1 specific articles as spam using backend spam-use-gmane
RL> Reporting article 198 to spam.gmane.org...
RL> Buffer has a running process; kill it? (y or n) 
RL> 1 spam messages were registered by backend spam-use-gmane.

RL> I can't remember when that behaviour started, but don't hesitate to ask
RL> for more information if needed.

I think this may be coming from the function
spam-report-url-ping-plain.  Does anyone know why it doesn't use
`url-retrieve' but instead implements its own version?  Looks like
Reiner did some work on it last, but the original code is vintage Lars :)

Ted