Re: Spam.el tutorial

[Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> disait récemment que :

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, kai@emptydomain.de wrote:
>
>> I think *now* I understand: spam-autodetect can do like spam-split,
>> but without splitting.
>
> Yes, using all articles or only the unseen ones (default is unseen).
> When you enter an autodetected group you'll basically run spam-split
> on all those articles.  But you can specify whatever spam-split
> methods you want to use.
>
>> For me, spam splitting is done on the server side with bogofilter,
>> and there is no easy way for me to tell Gnus to invoke bogofilter on
>> the server side.  So spam-autodetect is out, I guess.
>
> You can still use spam-use-BBDB, spam-use-blacklist,
> spam-use-blackholes, etc.

Is it recommended to 'mix' the spam methods ? I mean if I want to use
all spam methods at once, is this supposed to work or may I expect some
bad side effects (except the slowness of spam detection) ?

>> (I'd need a local bogofilter database it seems.  Wonder whether it's
>> worth it.  Maybe NOCEM can help?  What does it do, anyway?  There is
>> a vague connection between NOCEM and spam in my mind.)
>

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> I've promised I'll stop adding spam.el features, so I won't do this
> for No Gnus, but the next features of spam.el will be mass spam

Are we in the No Gnus development cycle yet ? I asked it not that long
and nobody answered. 

> detection and better summary display of spam.  Mass spam detection
> will be able to invoke certain programs once for a whole bunch of
> articles, which will make spam autodetection much faster.  In fact,
> people may start using spam autodetection instead of incoming mail
> splitting :)

Does this mean incoming mail splitting for spam will disappear soon ? I
am currently actively testing your spam autodetection new features and
it really works/rocks :)

> Ted

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