Noah Meyerhans wrote: > Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > I have to say, a less than two day delay between a new feature landing > > in trunk and rules files starting to use it seems a little > > over-enthusiastic. > > Indeed, and it shows quite the lack of consideration by upstream for > users and distro maintainers.
I don't think this was anything more than a simple misjudgement of the magnitude of the issue coupled with an enthusiasm to keep adding anti-spam rules. I have been following the author John Hardin's efforts on the upstream spamassassin mailing list for a long time. He has been doing good work. Experience is where you get the test first and the lesson second. We all make mistakes. This was simply one of those mistakes. And John has been working with the community since to produce a good resolution to the problem. That is already much better than most of Debian. I hope this doesn't make him gun-shy about continuing to add improvements to SpamAssassin. I know that we have benefited from his work and I hope to continue to do so in the future. Also thanks to you for the quick package update to enable use of these new rules as they become available. Bob
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