McDonald, Dan wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 21:40 -0700, John Rudd wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 21:11, Bill Landry<b...@inetmsg.com> wrote: >>> Jake Maul wrote: >>>> Interesting that I'm just now running into this... I've been using >>>> Botnet on this server for several months without issue. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the link, shorter timeouts should cure it. :) > > The patch was originally developed when SpamAssassin's resolver library > was patched to shorten the timeouts. I suggested the changes to mimic > the SpamAssassin code. > >>> Even though Mark Martinec had provided John Rudd with a nice, neat patch >>> for botnet.pm well over a year ago to resolve this issue, John has not >>> opted to take the 5 minutes that is necessary to fix botnet by applying >>> the patch. He is no longer maintaining botnet, and it has become an >>> orphaned plugin that is in serious need of repair. > > If you feel that way about it, fork it. I personally don't feel that > way about John's work. >> That's a rather presumptuous statement to make. >> >> The plug-in works in the vast majority of cases, and I've had higher >> priority things to work on. But the plug-in has not been abandoned (no >> are you qualified to make that statement), nor is it in _serious_ need >> of repair. >> >> Nor do you know how much pre-release work (testing, etc.) I put into a >> release, whether or not that's the solution to the specific problem I >> want to go with, etc., > > Correct. A more elegant solution would be to use the parallelizing > resolver library built into SpamAssassin, but that would increase the > complexity significantly, and take a lot more time to get right. I know > I don't have the time to do that sort of development properly, and I > fully sympathize with John's priorities.
John has been citing other priorities for 2 years (second verse, same as the first), and it has been even longer than that since the plugin has been updated - despite the issues that have been reported (a simple search (botnet timeout) of the mailing list archives will prove my point). You can start your search here: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5506 And the results of this effort were reported to John and summarily ignored. http://markmail.org/message/dmqjh5haffw7vbfg#query:mark%20Martinec%20botnet+page:1+mid:dmqjh5haffw7vbfg+state:results And still are ignored to date: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200901.mbox/%3c200901151806.07138.mark.martinec...@ijs.si%3e http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200901.mbox/%3c8b155d900901151312h6599f2e5ra2d4fe3ffd289...@mail.gmail.com%3e This issue has been unresolved for way too long. All of this, in my mind, this makes the plugin orphaned and unusable if not patched with Mark's patch. Bill
