Re: "url ping" spam reporting with wget

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

On Tue, Sep 09 2003, Eric Knauel wrote:

> here is a little patch for spam-report.el that provides a function
> `spam-report-url-ping-wget' that calls wget to report a spam message
> to gmane.

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])

> + (defcustom spam-report-url-ping-wget-options

See also `mm-url-predefined-programs'.

> +   '("--proxy=on" "-O-" "-q")

I think "--proxy=on" isn't useful here.  I'd recommend to use
"use_proxy = on" in ~/.wgetrc instead.

Bye, Reiner.

[1] E.g. I use the following:
(setq
 ;; Use wget instead of url.el (for nnweb-type google), seems to work more
 ;; reliable.
 mm-url-use-external t
 mm-url-program 'wget)
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