Noob seeks help with splitting and spam

[Jim Burton]

Hi, I've just started with Gnus, and I'm confused about the whole
splitting business and how I can use that to deal with spam. I decided,
somewhat arbitrarily, that I should use bogofilter. So I read the wiki
page about setting it up with gnus and the other resources I could find
on the subject, installed  bogofilter and so far I have this in ~/.gnus:

(require 'spam)
(require 'gnus-bogofilter)
(setq spam-use-bogofilter t
      spam-split-group "spam")
(spam-initialize)
(setq nnmail-split-fancy '(| (: spam-split)))

Finally, I presumed this required me to make a group called "spam", so I
did (with U "spam"), but I can't select that group as I get "couldn't
activate group".  As I understand it, I should now be able to use C-c g
s on a message to mark it as spam and move it into my "spam" folder?
Doing that doesn't seem to have any effect. A really simple HOWTO would
be much appreciated. Thanks,

Jim



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J Burton