On Sept 9, Daniel Quinlan added a note to the bottom of http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ContributingNewRules (the stuff within the parentheses).
> You can also post your SpamAssassinRules to the SARE forums at > http://www.rulesemporium.com/forums/ -- SARE will test rules that seem > promising, and can often incorporate viable rules into their custom > files faster than such rules get added to the distribution set. (this > really needs to mention that rules contributed to SARE don't generally > make it into SpamAssassin proper and that SpamAssassin can't take rules > contributed indirectly (we need permission from the author)) Agreed. I figured it'd be better to draft that notice here, and have everyone's input. First draft: You can also post your SpamAssassinRules to the SARE forums at http://www.rulesemporium.com/forums/ -- SARE will test rules that seem promising, and can often incorporate viable rules into their custom files faster than such rules get added to the distribution set. Notes of importance: a) Rules that work really well and /should/ be included in SpamAssassin need to be submitted directly to SpamAssassin. SARE cannot do that for you. (We need permission given personally by the author.) If you submit your rules to SARE, and they work well, then you should /also/ submit your rules to SpamAssassin via Bugzilla. b) The great majority of rules submitted to SARE do not qualify for inclusion in the SpamAssassin distribution set, for any of a number of good reasons. Inclusion in SARE is not an indication that rules are suitable for general distribution via SpamAssassin itself. How can that be improved? Bob Menschel
