How does the usual person not a member of the right mailing lists learn of this
patch? An hour spent Googling and vetting patches is an hour taken from my life
time. Fortunately for me I was still a member of this list. So I learned I can
just ignore the fool thing cluttering my mailbox. (I may even write an SA rule
to force marking it as extreme spam so that it sorts away from places where
important messages should appear. I like the irony of that idea.)
Have a nice day - you, too, will get really old and hurt a lot someday.....
{^_^}
On 2014-11-30 12:30, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
On 11/30/2014 12:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 30.11.2014 um 20:50 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt:
When the fix to allow older SA versions to silently accept the new
rule updates is a simple TEXT modification of 2 text Perl modules, you
are overreacting
no - i react correctly
* the problem was introduced with sa-update
* the problem has to be fixed with sa-update
problems have to be fixed at the root cause instead work around
downstream, that's a bad attitude and lead to problems sooner or later
Ah, but is this really a problem? I guess the $64K question is, does the new
rule that's version dependent increase the "spam catch" Because if it does,
then I don't regard it as a problem. Instead, I
want it!
if there would be a official SpamAssassin 3.4.1 we could discuss about
distributions should rapidly update their packages or even apply patches
local
But, is that going to help most of the people complaining about the problem?
They still will have elderly Perl versions. If 3.4.1 requires
a newer Perl version they will be stuck at 3.4.0 since their maintainers won't
update. If new version-dependent rules require new
Perl versions then what?
until that happened rule-updates must not rely on features not supported
by the current GA version and hence i *really* don't get the point of
that discussion
If the new version dependent rule update gives the spamfighting community a
significant compelling advantage against the spammers, then Damn the torpedoes
and full speed ahead!!!! I'll happily put in 2 minor patches to take advantage
of the rule! What I spend in possible headache doing that will be more than
made up by the increased spam I don't have to deal with!!
Ted
