Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)

Posted Jan 29, 2010 22:48 UTC (Fri) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172)
Parent article: Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)

This towards not shipping any default rules (or data) and relying on downloading is a bit worrisome, because it violates the rule of least surprise. Users expect that the package they download/install is at least marginally usable. Another example of this is OpenTTD which requires the downloading of graphics before the game will even start.

Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)

Posted Jan 30, 2010 16:37 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

A tarball of rules is available on the download page if you don't want to (or can't) use sa-update.

Apache Software Foundation releases SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (The H)

Posted Jan 30, 2010 18:50 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

SpamAssassin is a bit of a special case. Because it has to be integrated
into your email processing chain, it *already* isn't usable immediately
after download: you *already* have to read a bunch of stuff before getting
it working, and by its very nature virtually everyone using it will have
an Internet connection. (I'd hope most people are already running
sa-update, as well, in which case this 'new' requirement isn't going to be
strange to them at all.)