Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, dmaze@MIT.EDU wrote:
>> Could you also make the parallel change with spam-stat-load?  It
>> could be added to perhaps gnus-get-new-news-hook, and then removed
>> from spam-split.  (A little tricky; you want to make sure it's
>> loaded when Gnus is first started, but don't want to lose updated
>> data when you rescan groups.)
>
> Oh, I see the problem.  Sorry!  Fixed, I moved spam-stat-load to
> gnus-get-new-news-hook as you suggested.

Well, the good news: Gnus no longer takes multiple seconds per message
to read mail.  :-)  The bad news, part 1, is that this only works if
spam-use-stat is defined before spam.el is loaded.  (So if you
(require 'spam) at the top of your .gnus, say, you lose.)  This patch
fixes that: