[Q]: Gmane groups and spam filtering

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

Hi,

I am trying (hard) to use exclusively Gmane for _all_ my old mailing
lists.

As usual, some groups are quite big and contain many spams.

I am using the agent here and I am used to fetch *all* articles for
groups I read. Currently this implies I also fetch spam which is not
very efficient and lot of bandwith waste. I want to avoid this at some
level.

I know Gmane is tagging all spam messages with an 'xref' and that
spam.el provides some way to detect spam.

I tried to use this but it doesn't seem to work for me :(

Here are my settings for gmane groups (note I make an heavy use of 
gnus-parameters and nothing has been defined in any other part):


             ("^nntp\\+.*:gmane\\..*"
              (auto-detect . t)
              (spam-use-gmane-xref t)
              (gnus-agent-consider-all-articles . t)
              (gnus-agent-enable-expiration . (quote (DISABLE)))
              (spam-contents gnus-group-spam-classification-ham)
              (spam-process
               (gnus-group-spam-exit-processor-report-gmane))
               (agent-predicate (not spam))
              )


This doesn't work ! I just don't know if 'spam' as an agent-predicate
does something. Currently I set the agent-predicate on a group basis
and it is generally set to 'true' so I download *all* articles
(including spams).

Now I just want to know if my spam-use-gmane-xref is correct since I
don't see any difference when set and when not.

Thank you,

zeDek

P.S: how can I know if the parameter is in a dotted-pair format or not ?
-- 
Xavier Maillard
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