Status of spam.el - and its documentation?

Status of spam.el - and its documentation?

[Jonas Steverud]

I have now got 176 in about six months and thought I now should start
to train bogofilter, and was also thinking of test the documentation
of the spam.el file - i.e. looking for bugs in docs and code.

But before I start, I would like to ask about the status of these two
parts; how large are the changes from Gnus v5.10.6 to nGnus 0.1?

Since Gnus is "mission critical" for me I don't want to use CVS, but I
can accept nGnus (I've had no problems with past alphas of Gnus).

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Re: Status of spam.el - and its documentation?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004, tvrud@bredband.net wrote:

> I have now got 176 in about six months and thought I now should
> start to train bogofilter, and was also thinking of test the
> documentation of the spam.el file - i.e. looking for bugs in docs
> and code.

Wonderful, let me know how it goes.  The most important area for
testing is the article registration/unregistration tracking, which
uses the gnus-registry.el code (and you have to turn
spam-log-to-registry on for spam.el).  The registration/unregistration
tracking code is important for bogofilter, because it makes sure you
don't register the same spam more than once.

The major areas that need to be done at the moment are:

- check spam/ham status of multiple articles at once (only single
  checks right now, which can be slow)

- generic shell backend for spam filters, so new ones can be added
  painlessly

- configuration wizards for new users

> But before I start, I would like to ask about the status of these
> two parts; how large are the changes from Gnus v5.10.6 to nGnus 0.1?
> 
> Since Gnus is "mission critical" for me I don't want to use CVS, but
> I can accept nGnus (I've had no problems with past alphas of Gnus).

I would use nGnus 0.1; since then the changes made have been pretty
minor except for one important bug fix with tracking article spam/ham
registration status; before that bug fix articles were being
registered more than once.  It's a one-line fix though, so if you
don't feel comfortable with the CVS update you can just do a diff and
you'll see it:

(changed-articles (gnus-set-difference old-articles new-articles)))

was changed to:

(changed-articles (gnus-set-difference new-articles old-articles)))

Ted

Re: Status of spam.el - and its documentation?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, tvrud@bredband.net wrote:

> I sent an email to Ding about spam.el and would very much like to
> get some answers to the questions. The title is "Regarding spam.el".

Due to a new family member (my daughter was born on March 9) I've
been unable to follow ding, although I'm saving up the articles.

Sorry for the delay.  I'll follow up to your article and all others
that I can comment on, as soon as I am back.

Thanks
Ted