can gnus-unread-mark be a ham mark?

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On Thu Oct 30 2003 at 09:33, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> said:

>> 2) In a spam folder, the default mark is the spam mark.  How do I
>>    mark sonmething as ham?  When I exit the folder, if I have
>>    specified both hm and spam exit processors, will both kinds of
>>    message be sent out to be trained?
>
> Spam and ham marks are actually customizable (though spam marks
> should probably be just the spam mark).  Do `G c' on a group or
> topic to customize its spam/ham marks, or use M-x customize-variable
> on the variables gnus-parameter-ham-marks-alist and
> gnus-parameter-spam-marks-alist to achieve the same effect.  This is
> in the manual.

When I find ham in my spam group, I have a long-standing habit of
unmarking it with M-u (gnus-summary-clear-mark-forward), then moving
it somewhere useful to be acted on.  According to gnus-sum.el, it
looks as though M-u marks the message with gnus-unread-mark.

I suspect spam.el could move the message for me when I exit the group
if only it recognized gnus-unread-mark as one of the ham marks.
However, since spam.el doesn't currently notice gnus-unread-mark, my
newly-unmarked ham isn't handled by spam.el when I exit the group.

So I have a few questions:

- Does it make sense to consider these unmarked messages (messages
  marked with gnus-unread-mark) as ham when exiting a spam group?  It
  sure does to me, but maybe I'm weird.

- What's a good way to make gnus-unread-mark one of the recognized ham
  marks?  I hesitate to copy (gnus-define-group-parameter
  ham-marks... from gnus.el and redefine it in one of my startup
  files.

- Should gnus-unread-mark be added to the default value of
  gnus-parameter-ham-marks-alist?

Thanks for this magnificent spam-fighting machinery, Ted!

Cheers -

bw
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