Re: Getting started with spam filtering

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I especially don't want spam-stat.el to install its hooks into article
> retrieval, since spam.el passes articles around to spam/ham processors
> as strings.  Also, I added some things to spam-stat.el that are
> necessary and/or nice such as the spam score threshhold.
>
> Alex, can you look at the attached patch (it's against today's Gnus)
> and see what you think?  I don't want to commit or test the patch
> until I know it's sensible and OK with you.  Like I said, avoiding the
> hook installation is especially important.

Hm.  While this will basically work, what happens if somebody does

(require 'spam-stat)
(require 'spam)
etc.

I think the hooks will be installed nevertheless.

But then again -- what's so bad about the hooks?  All they do is store
a copy of the article text in another buffer.  Sure, it takes some
time.  But so what?

Alex.