On 2025-05-06 at 12:33:00 UTC-0400 (Tue, 06 May 2025 12:33:00 -0400)
Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com>
is rumored to have said:
[...]
I think we have arrived at it being time to just drop all VALIDITY
rules
from the default rulset. Even if people using them in meta rules have
to adjust (or add them back as local config). The query limits are so
low that it is hard to imagine any significant fraction of
spamassassin
users being ok with them.
In what way it is harmful for those rules to be left in place, given
that SA disables 'blocked' DNSBL servers when it encounters them.
I'm not a fan of Validity and I don't even believe that they have been
honest here or have acted in good faith. But whether or not we change
the default rules is not based on how trusted the Validity folks are
or even how useless their lists have become.
I'm always eager to make changes that actually improve SA. I am much
more uneasy about making changes that are entirely cosmetic.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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