Super Simple Spam Splitting for Gnus

Spam is an eternal problem, and while SpamAssassin is pretty good (I get around 700 mails per day, of which 670 are rejected as spam), there’s still some stuff that persistently gets through. A goodly portion of that is traditional random spam from random accounts, and there’s not much to be done about that, but there’s a recent trend of legitimate-looking things coming from persistent accounts — like BackerHome and BackerHive. I’m guessing that eventually these will get so bad reputations that they end up on RBLs and will disappear into the mists, but meanwhile… I just thought that there should be a mechanism in Gnus to split these message to the spam group — without having to do much work. Tada! It’s a small package, and you can find it on Microsoft Github. It’s basically a tiny minor mode that adds a couple of commands, so you just hit z, check the entry (or not) and then C-c C-c. (There’s also a command to edit the split data if things go off the rails, or just because you want…