I just got an email back from Joel. At least he is responsive. Apparently he did reach out and touch the community. He apparent asked the core development team. Unfortunately it was a narrow vision community skipping everyone else.
But there isn't much more that can be done about it now. Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:16 AM > To: Gary W. Smith > Cc: Jerry Bell; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Interesting NW article > > Gary W. Smith wrote: > > The article mentions that they reached out to the SA community to > > request submission. Which community did they read out to? > > > > I would have been glad to throw an environment together just for their > > testing purposes. > > > > I also wonder how many vendors on that list use SA as a backend to their > > custom scripts. > > > > Gary > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Jerry Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 7:42 AM > >>To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >>Subject: Interesting NW article > >> > >>There's a big review of anti-spam products at nw fusion here: > >>http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/122004spampkg.html?ts > >>Here's a bit on spamassassin: > >>http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/122004spamside6.html > >> > >>It's a pretty disappointing article. > >> > >>Jerry > >>http://www.syslog.org > > > > > > It wouldnt have been difficult for the author/testers to submit a > message to this list and ask for suggestions/help/comments/etc. Did > anyone see such a message? I didnt. Perhaps we should send a message > to the author why this wasnt done and exactly what community they > attempted to contact. For all that wish to do so, the authors address > is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > One would think the easiest way to "reach out to the SA community" would > be the SA mailing list. Aparently they thought otherwise. > > -Jim
