Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-09-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Wow... This mail has been sitting in my draft folder for a while, so I figured I ought to get it out. On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:24:04PM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: > I got nothing but love for you, so here goes ;) .. :) > > Chris! I'm surprised to hear you spreading this misinformation.

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-17 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, August 16, 2006 22:16, Bill Landry wrote: > Michaelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello and Chris :-p room for extensions :-) > PS, Andy, can you make your font any smaller, it's just not quite magnifing > glass size yet... or stop posting html to mailling lists :-) -- Benny

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Doc Schneider
Bill Landry wrote: - Original Message - From: Andy Jezierski There's a bunch of people in SARE (I don't know the actual number) focused on developing rules. Agreed. That's all they do is rules. Who knows how many ninja's are out there. Well, from what I recall, from when my kid

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: Andy Jezierski There's a bunch of people in SARE (I don't know the actual number) focused on developing rules. Agreed. That's all they do is rules. Who knows how many ninja's are out there. Well, from what I recall, from when my kids were much younger

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Andy Jezierski
Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/16/2006 10:04:19 AM: > I was debating whether or not to get involved with this thread, and it > looks like the original issue that Richard was concerned about has been > addressed so that's good.  However, my other issue with the thread so > far co

RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. . *sigh* I fear my last reply may either 1) Drive a wedge between SA and SARE 2) Make ppl think SARE vs SA is the norm. I assure everyone that SA and SARE have helped eachother a TON. Many of our request

RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. . I got nothing but love for you, so here goes ;) .. These are MY OPINIONS, and may or may not represent the opinions of SARE as a whole. > -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinte

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
I was debating whether or not to get involved with this thread, and it looks like the original issue that Richard was concerned about has been addressed so that's good. However, my other issue with the thread so far comes from the misleading or otherwise incorrect information being presented which

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Gah! I just found that sha1sum.pl is in MANIFEST.SKIP for some reason. > WTF? FWIW, I just put build/md5sum.pl and build/sha1sum.pl back in MANIFEST so they'll be included in the tarball for 3.1.5 and beyond. :) -- Randomly G

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Chris Santerre wrote: and, the OTHER project in this discussion -- SARE -- leaning on your own argument, is pointedly NOT undertaking to use/conform to sa's 'official' tools & capabilities -- namely, sa-update as a delivery mechanism. I don't see how I can make this any clearer SARE is r

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Stuart Johnston
Chris Santerre wrote: We write rules, not delivery systems. You can print out the rulesets from our webpage, and retype them into your system if you like. You can have someone encrypt ROT13, RAR, ZIP, and send you the torrent link. How you get your rules is your choice. It looks like SARE r

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 oops. s/i did not say "SARE is rules"./i did not say "SARE is delivery"./ On 8/11/06 Richard wrote: > i did not say "SARE is rules". - -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenM

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Chris Santerre wrote, On 8/11/06 11:51 AM: >> and, the OTHER project in this discussion -- SARE -- leaning >> on your own >> argument, is pointedly NOT undertaking to use/conform to sa's >> 'official' tools & capabilities -- namely, sa-update as

RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ... > and, the OTHER project in this discussion -- SARE -- leaning > on your own >  argument, is pointedly NOT undertaking to use/conform to sa's > 'official' tools & capabi

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Justin Mason
jdow writes: > From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Panagiotis Christias writes: > >> On 8/11/06, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > DAve wrote: > >> > > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > >> > >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> FWIW, the format sa-update e

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread jdow
From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Panagiotis Christias writes: On 8/11/06, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DAve wrote: > > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1su

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ...

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi andy, > Breaking out flamethrower. :-) heh. > The official SA rules are meant to be used by all users. SARE on the > other hand is "Here's the rules we have, go ahead and pick and choose what > you'd like to use. If anything" true.

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ...

2006-08-11 Thread Andy Jezierski
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/11/2006 11:11:00 AM: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > hi, > > < ... adjusting tin-foil hat and asbestos shorts ...> > Breaking out flamethrower.  :-) > a recent thread comment "from SARE" is the trigger here: > >    "RDJ

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ...

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi bret, > Amen. well, that, at least, makes two of us ;-) ... > Keeping the environment simpler and similar tasks done in a consistent > manner is really essential in a lot of business environments. 100% agreed. and re: "the environment",

RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ...

2006-08-11 Thread Bret Miller
> < ... adjusting tin-foil hat and asbestos shorts ...> > > since i actually asked a simple question early on (~ "can we use > sa-update rather than RDJ to pull SARE rules ...") in the interminable > "SA vs RDJ" thread ;-) , and, afaict, it's still unanswered, > i'll "opine". > > a recent thread c

Re: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi chris, Chris Santerre wrote, On 8/11/06 9:26 AM: >> from a user's perspective, all this is confusing/confounding. as a >> user, i want to see/use one mechanism for rules. > > From an SA admin, it makes perfect sense. :) well, given that i'm

RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread .. .

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ... > from a user's perspective, all this is confusing/confounding.  as a > user, i want to see/use one mechanism for rules. From an SA admin, it makes perfect sense. :) > > currently, it

breaking out: thinking abt the 'sa-update *VS* rdj' thread ...

2006-08-11 Thread Richard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi, < ... adjusting tin-foil hat and asbestos shorts ...> since i actually asked a simple question early on (~ "can we use sa-update rather than RDJ to pull SARE rules ...") in the interminable "SA vs RDJ" thread ;-) , and, afaict, it's still un

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: If the SARE guys are interested in this project, maybe they could come up with a list of the most commonly downloaded rulesets. For the month of Aug to date 1 /rules/70_sare_random.cf 2 /rule

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: sa-update vs RDJ > -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:45 AM > To: Chris Santerre > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: sa-update vs RDJ > > > On Fri, Aug 1

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:42:57AM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: > > If the SARE guys are interested in this project, maybe they could come > > up with a list of the most commonly downloaded rulesets. > > For the month of Aug to date > > 1 /rules/70_sare_random.cf > 2 /rules/70_sare_ad

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: sa-update vs RDJ > > If the SARE guys are interested in this project, maybe they could come > up with a list of the most commonly downloaded rulesets. For the month of Aug to date 1   /rules/70_sare_random.cf 2   /rules/70_sare_adult.cf 3    

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: sa-update vs RDJ   >> If the SARE guys are interested in this project, maybe they could come >> up with a list of the most commonly downloaded rulesets. >They are oddly silent on the subject so far... We're listening :) RDJ and SAupdate are reall

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Bret Miller
> >> Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > >> Going further... > >> > >> I could see SARE rules offered on many channels though some > >> reorganization may be required. Channels such as post25, > >> pre30, header, > >> body, etc. There are too many rules to have a channel for each but > >> possibly sets of

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Bowie Bailey wrote: DAve wrote: I have it working fine here, about 20 lines of /bin/sh and and I can turn out any number of rule sets, even a channel per SARE rule. I'm willing to publish the channels if there is interest in them. I still believe packages or sets of popular rules would be good.

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Bowie Bailey
DAve wrote: > > I have it working fine here, about 20 lines of /bin/sh and and I can > turn out any number of rule sets, even a channel per SARE rule. > > I'm willing to publish the channels if there is interest in them. I > still believe packages or sets of popular rules would be good. > Alterna

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Bret Miller wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: Going further... I could see SARE rules offered on many channels though some reorganization may be required. Channels such as post25, pre30, header, body, etc. There are too many rules to have a channel for each but possibly sets of popular rules

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread DAve
Bill Randle wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:35 -0400, DAve wrote: DAve wrote: Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that yo

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-11 Thread Justin Mason
Panagiotis Christias writes: > On 8/11/06, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DAve wrote: > > > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > > >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. > > >>> Does FreeBSD have a sha

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On 8/11/06, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DAve wrote: > Panagiotis Christias wrote: >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. >>> Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you showed? >>>

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:35 -0400, DAve wrote: > DAve wrote: > > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. > >>> Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you showed? Answering my own question, FreeBSD seems to not have a "s

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
Panagiotis Christias wrote: On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you showed? Answering my own question, FreeBSD seems to not have a "sha1sum", but

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you showed? Answering my own question, FreeBSD seems to not have a "sha1sum", but has a "sha1" which has that k

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Randomly Generated Tagline: > "... specially formulated so more nutrition stays in your cat." - Iams IAMS doesn't seem to be barfed with any less frequency than any other cat food brand we've tried, so they're obviously not using an anti-emetic ingred

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:03:23PM -0400, DAve wrote: > >For now, you may want to either do the openssl redirect thing, or use > >build/sha1sum.pl from the tarball. Both produce the expected format. > > Hmm my 3.1.1 doesn't have sha1sum.pl in build, contrib, or tools. But > how hard can a wrappe

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:12:48PM -0400, DAve wrote: SpamAssassin sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the signature first, f7c3edde6e9e2330318c3fc6a8e70af68387eaeb /home/updatesd/tmp/stage/3.2.0/update.tgzSHA1 My sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the si

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
DAve wrote: I ran into one issue but I haven't gotten a chance to look deeper into it yet. The sha1 file on updates.spamassassin.org is in one format, and he sha1 file I create is in another. Currently sa-update can't parse my file so I had to edit it. SpamAssassin sha1 contents (would all b

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:12:48PM -0400, DAve wrote: > SpamAssassin sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the signature first, > f7c3edde6e9e2330318c3fc6a8e70af68387eaeb > /home/updatesd/tmp/stage/3.2.0/update.tgzSHA1 > > My sha1 contents (would all be one line) have the signature last, > (

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
Bret Miller wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0700, Richard wrote: >>> rules_du_jour was done when sa-update did not exists >> are you implying that sa-update replaces rules-du-jour? > > That depends on what you mean by "replaces". > >> i though sa-update

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread DAve
Bret Miller wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0700, Richard wrote: >>> rules_du_jour was done when sa-update did not exists >> are you implying that sa-update replaces rules-du-jour? > > That depends on what you mean by "replaces". > >> i though sa-update

RE: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Bret Miller
> Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0700, Richard wrote: > >>> rules_du_jour was done when sa-update did not exists > >> are you implying that sa-update replaces rules-du-jour? > > > > That depends on what you mean by "replaces". > > > >> i though sa-update updat

sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-09 Thread DAve
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:58:19AM -0700, Richard wrote: >>> rules_du_jour was done when sa-update did not exists >> are you implying that sa-update replaces rules-du-jour? > > That depends on what you mean by "replaces". > >> i though sa-update updates the SA distro's bun

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:06:02PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Was there an update available on May 8? There've been updates available for a while now. Since before 3.1.1 came out, which was at the start of March. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "I didn't know Allman was a stand-up comedian ..

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/13/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's not empty if the download is successful. I believe there's a ticket about changing the behavior so an empty directory isn't left behind if the first attempt to do an update fails. Sounds good. > In that case I would argue that eithe

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 04:27:14PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > But surely there's some kind of disconnect here. sa-update creates an > empty directory that spamassassin (and spamd) then uses preferentially > to the one that really has the rules in it. It's not empty if the download is successfu

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/13/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:57:11AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Well, guess what. "sa-update" creates the > /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001001 directory if it does not exist, rather > than finding the directory that does exist and using that.

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:57:11AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Apparently the conflict is only that RDJ restarts spamd automatically, > but sa-update does not. I don't believe there's a conflict there, but yes, sa-update does not auto-restart spamd. > Default configuration data is loaded

Re: sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/13/06, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think there's some kind of conflict between sa-update and RulesDuJour that has borked my spamassassin installation, but I can't figure out how. Apparently the conflict is only that RDJ restarts spamd automatically, but sa-update does not.

sa-update vs. RDJ -- Default rules directory changed somehow?

2006-05-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
I think there's some kind of conflict between sa-update and RulesDuJour that has borked my spamassassin installation, but I can't figure out how. This morning after RDJ restarted spamd, spamc started returning messages with ONLY the spamassassin version header added, not the score report. Runnin