info: RDJ and anyone linking to Spamhammers

[jennifer <je...@emtinc.net>]

Hi all.  The website that is currently holding my rulesets is going to
be moving to a new webhost.  I am wondering how it would be easiest for
all of you to deal with this.  I'm concerned about the RDJ updater, and
anyone who is linked to the sets.

Does anyone have any preferences?  I can leave the page on the site, or
put the sets on someone elses site...   wiki?  Give the sets to someone?

I don’t know exactly what kinds of problems this is going to create (I
don’t use RDJ so I don’t really know how it works)

If anyone forsees a problem, let me know what I need to do... what info
you need, etc

Thanks,
jennifer

Re: info: RDJ and anyone linking to Spamhammers

[Chris Thielen <cm...@someone.dhs.org>]

Raquel Rice said:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:38:11 -0500
> "jennifer" <je...@emtinc.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all.  The website that is currently holding my rulesets is
>> going to be moving to a new webhost.  I am wondering how it would
>> be easiest for all of you to deal with this.  I'm concerned about
>> the RDJ updater, and anyone who is linked to the sets.
-snip-
>>
>
> Jennifer,
>
> I haven't seen any other responses to your questions, so thought I
> would try.
>
> What I see of RDJ, it seems it is capable of updating itself.  Can't
> an update to RDJ be coodinated with your change of webhost?

Note: RDJ *downloads* updates to itself, but it does *not* install them
automatically.  It only notifies via email that an update has been
downloaded.

> It seems that if we're given the new location for your rulesets,
> that Chris will be able (if he has time) to update RDJ, or we should
> be able to deal with a new location until RDJ is updated.

Updating the base RDJ config is easy enough.  It might be prudent to have
a "grace period", however, where the rulesets live in both old and new
locations (if that's possible... it might not be with the hosting
switch-over)

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Re: info: RDJ and anyone linking to Spamhammers

[Raquel Rice <ra...@thericehouse.net>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:38:11 -0500
"jennifer" <je...@emtinc.net> wrote:

> Hi all.  The website that is currently holding my rulesets is
> going to be moving to a new webhost.  I am wondering how it would
> be easiest for all of you to deal with this.  I'm concerned about
> the RDJ updater, and anyone who is linked to the sets.
> 
> Does anyone have any preferences?  I can leave the page on the
> site, or put the sets on someone elses site...   wiki?  Give the
> sets to someone?
> 
> I don_t know exactly what kinds of problems this is going to
> create (I don_t use RDJ so I don_t really know how it works)
> 
> If anyone forsees a problem, let me know what I need to do... what
> info you need, etc
> 
> Thanks,
> jennifer
> 

Jennifer,

I haven't seen any other responses to your questions, so thought I
would try.

What I see of RDJ, it seems it is capable of updating itself.  Can't
an update to RDJ be coodinated with your change of webhost?

Failing that, RDJ users also have a "personal" file
(my_rules_du_jour, in which to keep settings for their system. 
They're also able to define rulesets other than those in the stock
version of RDJ.  They're also able to block out updating from the
"old" locations.  

It seems that if we're given the new location for your rulesets,
that Chris will be able (if he has time) to update RDJ, or we should
be able to deal with a new location until RDJ is updated.

But, that's only my opinion.

-- 
Raquel
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