Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, niklas.morberg@axis.com wrote:
>> The first thing that got me was that messages are no longer
>> marked as read just by viewing them. This is good and just
>> something that I needed to learn.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean, messages should get the read-mark when
> they are viewed.  This is exactly what should happen, so they are
> considered ham and moved out of the spam group.

What I was trying to say was: pressing space in the Summary
buffer (what I usually do to ''read'' messages) will not
mark messages as read but will display the message for you.
Pressing `d' will set the read-mark for the message.

> What you call "explicitly marking messages read" is considered a
> delete operation internally in Gnus, thus the del-mark.

Ok, that explains a lot.

BTW, I think I found an error in the documentation for
spam-use-regex-headers, suggested patch included.