Even with that, spam-stat-load doesn't seem to get called when Gnus is
loaded.  What in gnus-1 causes incoming mail to be read on startup?
The only call to gnus-group-get-new-news there is protected by a call
to gnus-alive-p, and the code seems to leap from reading in all of the
prerequisite files to building the group buffer.  Does something in
the startup sequence actually run gnus-get-new-news-hook?

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