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

[hobbes@poukram.net (Rémi Letot)]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> 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
> :)

I'm pretty sure I didn't have this behavior "before" (don't ask me when
was "before", I couldn't tell when it changed), and it's quite annoying
when reporting spam to gmane. Am I the only one encountering this
problem ? 

Thanks,
-- 
Rémi