spam.el: what does this message mean?

spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Registering 4  articles with classification spam, check spam-use-bogofilter

I get the above message after leaving the spam group.  Okay, I
understand the part before the comma.  But what does "check
spam-use-bogofilter" mean?  Am I supposed to check something?  What?
Is it checking something?

Just a completely unimportant question,
Kai

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 04 Feb 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:

> Registering 4 articles with classification spam, check
> spam-use-bogofilter
> 
> I get the above message after leaving the spam group.  Okay, I
> understand the part before the comma.  But what does "check
> spam-use-bogofilter" mean?  Am I supposed to check something?  What?
> Is it checking something?

Sorry, this is actually "spam-check" and I've fixed it in spam.el.

It's the spam-check we use when registering or unregistering.  For
instance, the spam-use-bogofilter spam-check is associated like so in
spam-registration-functions:

  ;; first the ham register, second the spam register function
  ;; third the ham unregister, fourth the spam unregister function

    (spam-use-bogofilter spam-bogofilter-register-ham-routine
			 spam-bogofilter-register-spam-routine
			 spam-bogofilter-unregister-ham-routine
			 spam-bogofilter-unregister-spam-routine)

I realize I'm abusing spam-use-bogofilter to mean both "use
bogofilter" and "associate things with bogofilter" but it seems like
a better way than inventing new symbols every time.

Ted

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 04 Feb 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:
>
>> Registering 4 articles with classification spam, check
>> spam-use-bogofilter
>> 
>> I get the above message after leaving the spam group.  Okay, I
>> understand the part before the comma.  But what does "check
>> spam-use-bogofilter" mean?  Am I supposed to check something?  What?
>> Is it checking something?
>
> Sorry, this is actually "spam-check" and I've fixed it in spam.el.
>
> It's the spam-check we use when registering or unregistering.

So now I understand this as "I'm telling bogofilter that 4 articles
are spam."  Is this correct?  (It's very unsuitable as a message in
the echo area.)

I actually understood the message "Check spam-use-bogofilter" to mean
"Type C-h v spam-use-bogofilter RET" ;-)

Kai

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:

>>> Registering 4 articles with classification spam, check
>>> spam-use-bogofilter

> So now I understand this as "I'm telling bogofilter that 4 articles
> are spam."  Is this correct?  (It's very unsuitable as a message in
> the echo area.)
> 
> I actually understood the message "Check spam-use-bogofilter" to
> mean "Type C-h v spam-use-bogofilter RET" ;-)

I'll change it.  What do you suggest as the replacement?

Ted

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I'll change it.  What do you suggest as the replacement?

He, well you already said you'd change check into spam-check.

Maybe "Registering 4 articles as spam using bogofilter".  This just
occurred to me.  When I wrote the previous posting, I didn't have an
idea.  Also, I'm not a native speaker, so I might produce even more
bogus messages...

Kai

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:

> Maybe "Registering 4 articles as spam using bogofilter".  

OK, I use:

"Registering 4 articles as spam using backend %s"

where %s is e.g. spam-use-bogofilter.  I don't have "bogofilter"
associated with the symbol spam-use-bogofilter, and I don't want to
complicate the code unnecessarily.  I hope that's OK.

> Also, I'm not a native speaker, so I might produce even more bogus
> messages...

No, I think that is fine.  I'm not a native speaker either, so I
appreciate any comments on messages or manual for my stuff in Gnus.  I
sometimes have trouble catching my badly stated sentences, because I
concentrate on coding.

Ted

Re: spam.el: what does this message mean?

[Kai Grossjohann]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Fri, 06 Feb 2004, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:
>
>> Maybe "Registering 4 articles as spam using bogofilter".  
>
> OK, I use:
>
> "Registering 4 articles as spam using backend %s"

Cool.

Kai