On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:18:16 -0400 Bill Cole wrote: > On 16 Oct 2020, at 21:06, Noel Butler wrote: > > > perhaps, the rules above should be defined only for version >=4 > > and versions <4 should have the original rules. > > The rule name change is an artifact of how the rules are > version-controlled. We have exactly one version of the rules and it > resides in the trunk of the Subversion repository.
And that one version of rules has separate definitions for SA versions that support "feature_blocklist_welcomelist" and those that don't. There's no excuse for providing confusing information. > What does NOT work is to conflate the change in rule names with a > change in configuration directive names. They are different things. That's not at all clear from the "describe" text displayed for 3.*. The OP assumed it was time to switch configuration and that's perfectly reasonable IMO.