Hi Gary and others,
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Gary V wrote:
read this, it may validate your choice to stay stable:
http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/kernel.html
No, I'll definitely stay with stable. I have dabbled with testing
for a bit and it was "fun" learning about Debian and breaking it and
fixing it again. But unfortunately, Debian isn't a hobby, but also my
work machine and more time I spend fixing it is less time for work...even
if I justify it by saying I am learning about Debian. I tied an imaginery
string around my finger to stop me from going to anything other than
stable.
As for Magnus' message, I have also tried pinning. It works, but
it is a bigger step than using something like backports.org. I broke my
system and went up to testing as a solution last time; realized my mistake
and went downt to stable and trying to tempt myself again. Granted, many
pin successfully...but I'm not a good enough Debian sysadmin to succeed
with pinning.
Yes, once you are using 3.1.1 or greater, run 'sa-update' - you will get a
complete set of up-to-date rules.
...
Thanks for the instructions; I will give that a try. My upgrade
with backports.org went successful and I did it before reading Michel's
message about using CPAN to install SA. It's catching 25% of the spam
now, instead of 0%...I've seen a few messages about boosting its accuracy;
I'll look into that next. Thank you all for your help!
Ray
