Here is the thread. The word "very" should have been underlined and bolded, but the mail ready seemed to change it to clear text. I know there are more than 15, but I was just mentioning the very active ones such as Theo and Chris. I know I'm less active (more or less lurching now a days...
Gary -----Original Message----- From: Joel M Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:26 AM To: Gary W. Smith Cc: Joel M Snyder; Keith Shaw Subject: Re: reach out to the SA community Gary: OK. What we need to do is figure out how to handle the 'tool-based' approach of the open source world in comparison to the 'packaged solution' in the commercial world. This is really the heart of the issue that no magazine has been able to successfully resolve. It has been difficult in the past to have good discussions on this topic because of the fairly idiosyncratic nature of the personalities involved. But it is clear that this is a very important thing to our readers and I'd welcome some way to have a reasoned discussion on the topic. I think that both the open source user community and the enterprise network managers that we write for would find some benefits. What do you suggest would be a good path forward? jms Gary W. Smith wrote: > Joel, > > I'm fairly active in the SA users community. There are a group of about > 15 very active people on the list that help out any others. Many of use > have been using SA in large production environments for a couple years > now. > > users@spamassassin.apache.org > > I am not directly involved in the core development but rather we are > core users. > > Gary Smith > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Joel M Snyder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:59 AM >>To: Gary W. Smith; Keith Shaw >>Subject: Re: reach out to the SA community >> >>Gary: >> >>Thanks for the note. I got a note yesterday from Daniel Quinlan > > asking > >>to talk about this as well. I'm trying to schedule a call with him. > > I > >>assume that you know him? Anyway, once we get a time, we can try and >>get you on it as well. Keith Shaw handled all the invites, so he > > would > >>know more about it than I. >> >>Maybe you and Daniel can figure out a good time to talk? >> >>In terms of "ruled out," that would be very untrue. We looked at 36 >>products, and several of them have SpamAssassin inside, both in > > Windows > >>and Unix variants. So the filtering of the product was well > > represented > >>by vendors who have commercialized SpamAssassin. Plus, of course, >>there are vendors who have SpamAssassin inside that didn't choose to >>disclose that. >> >>jms >> >> >>Gary W. Smith wrote: >> >>>In reference to >>>http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/122004spamside6.html, which >>>community did you reach out to? We have a very active list of users > > and > >>>developers and none of them were ever requested to participate in > > such > >>>tests. Many people on the list believe that you have ruled out a >>>significant piece of software. >>> >>>Gary Smith >>> >> >>-- >>Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 >>Phone: +1 520 324 0494 (voice) +1 520 324 0495 (FAX) >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opus1.com/jms Opus One > > > -- Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Phone: +1 520 324 0494 (voice) +1 520 324 0495 (FAX) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opus1.com/jms Opus One
