Re: svn commit: rev 47510 - spamassassin/trunk

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Michael Parker writes:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:21:06PM -0000, jm@apache.org wrote:
> > +    - MIMEDefang: version 2.42 or later.
> 
> FWIW, I completely disagree with doing this.  A) It will give the
> impression that we support these programs (I assume there will
> eventually be more), B) How are we verifying that the version listed
> actually works? C) Is someone going to test every single release
> against each program we have listed to make sure the information is
> still valid? D) What criteria are we using to decide which programs
> get listed?

  (A) well, we *do* to a degree [*]
  (B) what users/devs of those tools report on the list
  (C) no
  (D) the volume of traffic from people asking these questions

[*]: SpamAssassin is NOT just a mail filter.  It's also a suite of perl
modules to perform spam identification inside other mail filters. amavisd,
MIMEDefang et al are therefore supported products into which SpamAssassin
can be plugged.  Therefore we have to consider what documentation will
help people who use those apps in using SpamAssassin.

Having said all that, I'd be +1 on taking that out of UPGRADE, replacing
with a pointer to a wiki page which contains that info.

- --j.
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