On Sunday 23 November 2003 9:05 pm, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Sunday, November 23, 2003 8:35 AM -0500 Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I gave this guy a piece of my mind! > > Care to cc a copy to the SA list? Hopefully you don't mean that you were > antagonistic. Too many open source advocates sound like the crazy aunt in > the attic, which alienates the corporate decision makers.
Here is what *I* sent him, and his reply: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: Your anti-spam article in Infoworld Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:38:00 -0800 From: "Logan Harbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Antony Stone'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The point of using the old version of SpamAssassin was to show how much the technology has changed in the last few years. That was stated in my original article but edited out of the final version. (I love copy editors.) Feel free to forward this to the list - I've been getting a lot of defensive emails about later versions of SpamAssassin. Thanks, Logan G. Harbaugh 530 222-1164 693 Reddington Drive Redding, CA 96003 www.lharba.com -----Original Message----- From: Antony Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:41 AM To: Logan G. Harbaugh Subject: Your anti-spam article in Infoworld Hi. Saw your article about anti-spam products in Infoworld magazine http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html I use SpamAssassin, and I think it's a great product, and I notice you said "SpamAssassin represents an older, first-generation anti-spam solution, and its age showed in my tests." However, I think this is an extremely unfair observation, considering that you chose to install version 2.44, which is quite out of date now (January 2003), especially when you quote the website address for SpamAssassin in your article, which clearly shows the current version as 2.60, and lists many significant new features which detect modern variants of spam. I cannot imagine that any of the commercial vendors would appreciate an article reviewing an out-of-date product, so please don't do this for the Open Source community either. Your article came up for discussion on the SpamAssassin discussion mailing list; please indicate in your reply to me whether you are happy for me to forward your response to this email to that list. Many thanks, Antony Stone ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
