Whoa. Ted please calm down. I think you read too much into this and are seriously overreacting. I didn't propose immediately replacing NJABL with <something else> like mailspike. I was only pointing out that NJABL was performing very poorly, to such an extent that you're better off removing it because it is needlessly using your resources. In effect my proposal makes nearly zero difference to SpamAssassin's current performance because these rules are nearly useless.
The process of adding new DNSBL's to the official spamassassin rules is very lengthy. Among the things we need to improve/verify for eligibility: As you have correctly noted, the website of Mailspike needs improvements. Then we need to ask about the robustness of the mirror network. Then ask for clarification about future plans for taking it private and demanding money from users. I also know about other measures to further improve Mailspike's performance. Masschecks have confirmed for over a year now that Mailspike's performance is awesome. Even after the above things are done, it still might be months or even a year before SpamAssassin uses it as a default rule, because current policies seem to allow for big changes like this only at major releases like 3.4.0. It seems we need a general discussion about rule update policies and procedures, soon to happen on dev@ list. Warren On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 22:44:09 +0000, João Gouveia wrote: > > > Again, a bit harsh, but I see your point. We shall improve the web > > site whenever possible. As everything free (and we would like to keep > > it that way), it's kind of subject to time+effort constraints, and > > typically we prefer to make use of that improving the efficiency of > > the list, and not so much working on the web site.. > > João, please do not be discouraged by the ranting. We use mailspike at > multiple sites and it is a valuable, low-FP addition to the DNSBL > arsenal. Thanks for your efforts. > > -- > Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org> >
