You should be able to just load it up in a current version of SA and see if
it throws any errors.

There's nothing that pops out at me as more problematic for the current
version than an old version, but....

On 10/15, Harry Putnam wrote:
> trusted_networks 192.168.0.

I don't think that was ever necessary, I think 192.168.0.* is included in
SA's default guesses if you don't specify a trusted_networks.  But I guess
that's not documented, and I don't feel like checking the code for it at
the moment.  Not a problem anyway.

> skip_rbl_checks 1
> dns_available no 

Disabling network checks causes spamassassin to be wrong 5 times as often.
5.35 times as often on non-spam, and 4.25 as often on spam.  And I believe
that's only if you're running spamassassin with the -L or --local flags.
By disabling DNS tests, you disable a significant portion of the network
tests, without causing spamassassin to use the different score sets which
are optimized for having no network tests.  So you're likely to get worse
than 5 times as many emails wrong.  

Maybe you really do need network tests disabled.  Weird things happen.  But
don't disable them lightly.  There's more info here:
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsingNetworkTests
The estimate that enabling network tests "halves the false negative rate"
is old and I should change it.  I guess that means SA has become more
dependent on network tests.  Kind of sad, but not surprising.

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