On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 14:35, Shayne Hardesty wrote: > this earlier this week.. As spamassassin evolves, rules will need to be > updated regularly (weekly?), but I think forcing a recompile and reinstall
This shouldn't be the case, if the rules are thoughtfully produced to start with. I'm running with rules from 2.11, which is almost a month old now, and they're working fine. I had my first egregious false-negative (some guy in china trying to sell me DC motors) slip through today. With the new AWL, my false positive rate has plummeted. Spammer do adapt, but they don't adapt *that* fast. > of spamc/spamd every time rules change is silly.. It would make more > sense to me to work sort of like anti-virus software where you download a > weekly "spam definition file" or whatever and install that to get the > latest and greatest rules. Then spamc/spamd updates can be handled on a The only reason they only give you a new DAT file instead of a whole new virus checker with bugfixes is because: (a) They're lazy in fixing bugs and (b) They have to pass their bugfixes through some bureaucratic QA/release process (don't get me started on how innefficient this typically is) "Release Often" is not necessarily a bad thing. Why shouldn't you fix a half dozen bugs at the same time you freshen your rules? As long as new versions remain backwards-compatible, you should be completely fine. Every once in a while there'll be a more substantial release which might break some backward compatibility, and at that point you can choose when to update. > I understand I'm not a developer, so I don't want anyone to think I'm > trying to "push" the project anywhere without contributing, but from an > end user standpoint a daily/weekly/monthly "spam definition file" makes > much more sense than a cvs checkout, compile, reinstall, and > pray-nothing-breaks cycle. As a developer, I'll make sure we try and notify you when anything's going to break with an upgrade :) C _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
