Re: Gnus SPAM support, and email based reporting.

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On 25 May 2004, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004, daniel@rimspace.net wrote:
>
>> I agree with that; it makes sense to be able to treat it just like the
>> other spam settings.  The default prompting thing would also be good,
>> though, for the better "out of the box" experience, I think.
>>
>> Give me a minute...
>>
>> ...and this should implement precisely that.  
>
> I'm not sure I like this auto-magic setting on first use.  Does anyone
> else like/dislike it?  Seems to me like we should choose a valid
> default or nil, but not ask the user unless they want to be asked.
> Of course, I could be wrong, but nowhere else in Gnus is this used
> AFAIK.

Well, I don't believe that we *can* find a valid default value.
I certainly know of nothing that would work for ever a small proportion
of people, let alone a majority.

This isn't unprecedented within Emacs either; PSGML already does this
for `user-email-address'.

I don't think that this should be the recommended way of setting the
value, either, just that it is the nicest option when we don't have a
value already - and it isn't likely to trigger in any automated setup
that I can see...

>> No handling of the group stuff yet, because I am not sure where that
>> is best hooked in.
>
> I looked at gnus.el, and the attached patch adds the parameter.  Let
> me know if the *parameter* looks OK and I can add the rest of the glue
> to make spam.el do a lexical let on spam-report-resend-to.

At the moment the code only deals with a string `spam-report-resend-to';
I wonder if it is best to support more than one address there...

Anyway, that looks reasonable to me, with the caveat that I don't know
that code well.

     Daniel
-- 
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as
possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that
interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. 
        -- Bertrand Russell