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Backporting filtering software?

Posted Aug 12, 2005 2:00 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Fedora-Legacy security update to spamassassin

Backports for spamassassin are not enough. It's not like legacy systems deal with spammers from five years ago. In my opinion, running obsolete filtering software is security risk no matter how well it's patched.

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