On Fri, 21 Nov 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
I haven't been able to properly ascertain the author's various connections to commercial ventures, but in this instance he does take a rather "dim view" of Open Source and SpamAssassin in particular. The fact that he uses SA 2.44 as his "justification" that SA is "inferior" proves up either that he (1) had an agenda to plug or (2) was actually ignorant that the version he was using is several revs out of date. 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 up a need to make a point "in favour" of the commercial solutions. Has anyone else read any of his rather large number of articles? Is the chap a legitimate technologist or is he merely an apologist for those willing to pay him his fee? Not that this is a bad thing, mind you, he needs to put food on the table too, but willfully mis- representing something is rather reprehensible. A quick Google search pointed up quite a corpus of work, none of which I've had the time (or, quite honestly, the inclination -- I tend to distrust talking heads) to read. +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
