On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
Obviously, you are choosing to be dense. The bottom line is that the
particulars regarding this event were published. Whether or not you
availed yourself of that notification is immaterial. There was not
anything nefarious in the ClamAV team's actions. You have obviously
bought into the shibboleth that software authors, distributors, etc
must
adhere to your specifications. Your rantings against them have turned
puerile.
I'm not ranting against anybody. I'm asking if you pondered any
other way to
obtain the very same result, without putting your finger into somebody
else's systems. That's it.
I think you're ranting, not me.
Your server(s) are your responsibility. That responsibility includes
keeping abreast of events that might adversely affect them.
Obviously,
at least to me, that would include the software installed on said
machines. I subscribe to every major software forum for the software
installed on my machines. It is part of my job description. If you
are
too busy to keep abreast of the latest developments regarding your
system, or unwilling to do what is required to keep your system
fully functional and assuming others are dependent upon you doing so,
then perhaps it is time to start looking for a new line of work.
This has nothing to do with the correct way a team of supposedly
knowledgeable and professional people should follow to solve a
problem.
I don't believe the way the team choose was the best one, since I
have the
strong believe that other, equal-cost and less-damaging solution
were simply
available.
Yes, and you have made your point, you are not happy with the way the
team decided to handle the situation. However, that does not mean it
is your decision to make.
I don't understand why you or other keep teaching (the art of) system
administration to anybody. Everybody like to manage its own systems
the way
they like. Even SpamAssassin comes with its own update tool, but
this tool
doesn't commit the update if something smells wrong and SpamAssasin
keeps
running with old rules. There is people in the world to whom this is
less
than an issue. As long as nobody from outside stops their
spamassassin, the
fact the rules are old is unimportant.
Yes, you are correct here and I am not an authority on the history of
spamassasin, they added in (not necessarily in the beginning) a
mechanism to handle this. ClamAV did to, but is not an available
mechanism till version 0.95
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