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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2006/08/21 19:00:31 UTC
Re: sa-update and VirusScannerTypeUpdates
Andreas Pettersson writes:
>I keep seeing suggestions to use sa-update quite often on this list, but
>I thought it was no use doing so between releases according to this page:
>http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VirusScannerTypeUpdates
>with these exact words in the end:
>
>"Daily and/or weekly updates aren't practical, because it takes weeks to
>evolve a scoreset for a release."
>
>So, how often are there new rules available via sa-update?
well, the scoreset isn't yet being evolved for each sa-update release;
instead the scores are statically assigned by hand.
Other than that, though, we should probably update that page to note that
we are doing part of that anyway ;)
--j.