Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, knauel@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de 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. I found that convenient because the orginal
>> `spam-report-url-ping' (now `spam-report-url-ping-plain') didn't
>> obey the http proxy settings.
>
> I like the patch, but wouldn't it make sense, as Reiner said, to use
> a mm-url.el function as the alternative, instead of crafting our own
> replacements for it?

That makes perfect sense to me, I simply wasn't aware that mm-url.el
is already doing this for me. ;-) Here is an updated version of the
patch, autoloading mm-url if needed: