Sorry to but-in.. I have just wasted a day trying to get my companies
mail working again. We have an Apple xServe and knew nothing about
clamav until we stopped receiving our email this morning. I don't know
how you could have communicated with us on this one but perhaps it
would have been better if you had somehow got Apple to update their
customers by software update so that the un-initiated would not have
needed to worry about this.
On 19 Apr 2010, at 17:09, Jim Preston wrote:
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
Jim Preston wrote:
Forcing an upgrade by flipping a kill switch was AN option, but
it wasn't the only one.
No one is arguing that there weren't other options. However, it
was their decision to make to move forward with incompatible
signatures to support new features. Code changes were put into
0.95.3 (and maybe earlier in the 0.95 tree) which allows clamd to
continue running with the new signatures and just does not use
them. That is not the issue, the issue is pre 0.95 could not
handle the new signatures and everyone had 6 months do something
about it.
Yes, we all know that something had to be done, but just two days
ago, the argument most definitely was that there was **NO** other
option - absolutely no other option and this was the **ONLY** way
to do it.
Now you at least are coming round to the acceptance that there were
other options. That has been part of people's objections - apart
from choosing the option they did, at least in these threads, the
argument has been that "there was **NO** other option", which quite
frankly was never accepted as true or reasonable.
Lessons to be learned on both sides I think.
--
Simon Hobson
No, Simon, if you read some of my earlier posts I stated it was
their decision to make and had taken measures to give users / admins
6 months to do something about. They apparently also allowed users /
admins to comment on their plan and when objections were not forth
coming, went ahead as planned. After that this thread diverged into
other tangents....
Jim
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