[SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Barnes
Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Kevin Railsback is Test Center operations manager at InfoWorld. " > > Maybe he doesn't work there anymore! Did you email that to the author? OMG! I know him! He used to be one of the help desk guys here at Texas A&M back when he was an undergrad!. (

[SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Barnes
Martin Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Fri Nov 21 23:34:35 2003, Jeremy Dold wrote: >> >> Does someone want to respond to this guy and point out the obvious? >> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?s=tc > > It's a bit embarrassing for the journalist that he was happy to

[SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Barnes
> Given that the date of the article is November, 2003 and probably > was written months in advance to make the deadlines he should at the > very least have used 2.55 -- which was a darned good product. But, > the insisitence of using a year-old (at least) release seems, to me > at least, to point

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Santerre
*snip* > > for free on our own in our spare time? > > I agree with you Fred that there's plenty to criticize about that > article, but your last paragraph is not one of them. For the vast > majority of people it is well worth $10-20 per month for spam and > virus protection. Most people would muc

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Terry Milnes
Nancy McGough wrote: On 24 Nov 2003 Fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] SpamAssassin 2.4 is really out-dated, it's missing Bayes and thousands of other fixes that make it a better product. I had a good laugh on your article, you say "Spend the 10 or 20 per month per year for one of the commerci

[SAtalk] Re: Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-24 Thread Nancy McGough
On 24 Nov 2003 Fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [...] > > SpamAssassin 2.4 is really out-dated, it's missing Bayes and thousands of > other fixes that make it a better product. > > I had a good laugh on your article, you say "Spend the 10 or 20 per month > per year for one of the commercial serv