Giorgos, I actually understood what you said, this is not automatic among all the folks here who knew elisp and other things I don't...I'll file that away...
But I have to admit I've not followed this thread (until today) for the past 4-5 days while I worked on rmail-spam-filter....I had already invested more than 10 hours trying to get gnus to just read basic email for me and there was no light at the end of the tunnel yet...and apparently the 2005 version of gnus wasn't new enough (sorry, as I said earlier, dreamhost won't custom install for me so I'd just have to wait until they update it...and that wasn't the only part of using gnus that was far from "ready out of the box") rmail-spam-filter isn't 100% ready-out-of-the-box either I have to admit but as of tonight I finally got it working...except it marks everything as spam... but I think we (Alan Wehmann has been extremely helpful by private email) will get that ironed out.. so it looks like a solution.. (one thing I did discover is: you probably do NOT want to have a .emacs.elc to get rmail-spam-filter working via customize-group!) I did learn the customize feature for the first time, which took some reading, but even with that and a half dozen bumps on the road the light is still closer at the end of the tunnel, for rsf (rmail-spam-filter), than it was with gnus.. If/when I do, hopefully, get rsf working, I'll send a short report to the gnu emacs community with a plea on making out of the box spam filtering built into emacs...Here's the short version of that plea: spam has been around for a good decade, and spam as a "big enough "problem is a good half-decade old...it's therefore high enough a priority to have tools to deal with that which folks who don't know elisp (even fact even folks who know less emacs than I do -- say, folks who have just learned rmail basics for the first time) should be able to use...Any other reports which I may have of helpful things discovered or dangers (e.g. possibly .emacs.elc) to avoid, which might be helpful to others in the future, I'll include as well. Needless to say I am grateful to the gnus community people who took the time to try to help me, even if it didn't work out for me given my lack of elisp background nor extensive linux background but just basic "used emacs since 1989" day by day experience. Harel Keramidas wrote: > On 5 Jan 2007 21:51:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I guess I still just wget > > > > http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/Downloads/rmail-spam-filter/rmail-spam-filter.el > > > > and put > > > > (load "/home/harel/rmail-spam-filter.el") > > > > in my .emacs [...] > > FYI, a nice 'trick' when you have a personalized collection of elisp > source files, which you want Emacs to know about, isto use something > like: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp") > > Then you can put elisp source files in ~/elisp instead of cluttering > your HOME directory too much. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
