Re: "url ping" spam reporting with wget

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Tue, Sep 09 2003, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, tzz@lifelogs.com wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, 4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de wrote:
>> 
>>> Can't we use the functionality already present in `mm-url.el' in
>>> `spam-report.el' instead of duplicating very similar variables?
>>> (`mm-url-use-external', `mm-url-program', ... [1])
>> 
>> Have you looked at spam-report.el?  It does not depend on any other
>> packages or external programs, unlike mm-url.el which seems to need
>> url.el and one of w3, wget, curl, etc. installed.  Am I
>> misunderstanding something?
>
> I think I definitely misunderstood, you must mean to make mm-url.el
> the alternative to the plain HTTP ping, but leave that in place.  

Yes, this is what I had in mind.  Sorry if my wording wasn't clear.

> I'm happy with that, if Eric wants to provide the patch.

When using `mm-url-...', `autoload' statements could be used instead
of "(require 'mm-url)", so that mm-url isn't loaded unless an
alternative (to the plain HTTP ping) is used.

Bye, Reiner.
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