Re: nocem in Gnus: should it go away?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On  1 Dec 2006, dmaze@mit.edu wrote:

> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>
>> /gnus/lisp> grep -i nocem *.el|wc
>> 165     754    9124
>>
>> That's a lot of code for a feature no one uses.  Should it go away?
>> Or should it be revisited, updated, and made useful?  Maybe it can
>> integrate with spam.el for instance.
>
> My $0.02 is that "classic" Usenet spam has practically vanished (for
> the...five? public NNTP groups I read, three of which are
> moderated).

It's terrible on Gmane, though, and I use that for many lists :)

> I tried using NoCeM for a bit but the overhead of running it was just
> insane, even given a news server pretty close to me on the network.
> Setting gnus-spam-autodetect to scan NNTP groups too seems to give
> pretty good results at a much lower performance overhead.

Yes, I like it too.  Very fast on Gmane because of their anti-spam
system.

> If you were trying to read "most" of Usenet using Gnus, it might still
> be useful to you.  But that's an awful lot of traffic.  Personally, I
> wouldn't miss nocem if it vanished, and I could see it wanting to
> vanish if the code maintenance issues are starting to stack up.

I'll see what Katsumi Yamaoka says.  My feeling is that it could be
useful, but not too many care.

Ted