Ah... but there is a problem with the agreement to change the information in the email - basically that it has already been done, but some sysadmins are either stuck with the old version (software reliability testing procedures at some companies force sysadmins to stick with older programs that have been "tested" as opposed to updating a program such as spamassassin - which is why I consider it necessary to write (potentially) 3.0 in such a way as it will update it's rulelist from a mirror/website when necessary), and also some sysadmins just install something and don't bother looking at it again until it breaks.
Basically, even when I installed spamassassin 2.20 on debian (stable release - using apt-get), I was directed to the correct user information page on spamassassin.org, so either people are not actually reading the header information, or else the sys admins for the site are running an extremely outdated version... I just checked a spam message from 2.55 and this is what it says inside :- See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. And that connects me to the Spamassassin Information for End-Users page.... As to "All the active members of this list should apologize to every idiot who makes this kind of complaint in the wrong place."... well I don't have the time to respond to those emails - I have too many other tasks to complete - like writing a webpage that is system-wide but only accesses a particular user's information for their spamassassin preferences... Or modifying the system backup procedures to actually be more functional, or keep the system here running smoothly, or many other things that a SysAdmin must do to keep their jobs, in this case I have a few minutes to respond to emails - I make sure I spend at least a half hour a day checking lists and responding to things. Oh, and also - most people on a mailing list don't have time nor the interest to respond to everyone who can't be bothered to read the obvious documentation - such as the above listed website, which is in the message tag... Regards, Cassandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben M. VanWagner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin > >Because of you I am changing ISP's. There is no such thing as a > >whitelist that works. Even if I receive valid mail and you have > >targeted it as spam I cannot read it because you control freaks have > >altered the e-mail. Anyone else having similar problems? Why not let > >us have control of what happens at the PC level as opposed to the > >network level? > > > > > > What amazes me is that everytime some idiot does this.. everyone agrees that the information in the email needs to be changed and then it never is. > > I have mostly been a spectator on this list for the past 6 to 8 months. I have seen this thread and dozens and dozens of others like it, everytime this happens someone suggests changing the message, someone else suggests both changing the message and website, everyone else agrees, nothing changes. > > All the active members of this list should apologize to every idiot who makes this kind of complaint in the wrong place. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. > If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a > relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. > Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
