On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:28 -0500, Hill, Brett wrote: > > In the last email, all you complained about was that there was no > stability (since 1.2.6).
Pointing out bugs and instability issues is not complaining. That's stating fact, which unfortunately might seem negative. But it's not. > I am not confusing ASSP with any other > project, simply stating that code is always going through revisions. > Name a perfect code writer. Well let's see Linus and Alan Cox have an excellent reputation, and are pretty close to perfect coders. D.J. Bernstein not only writes good code, but also teaches others, FYI author of Qmail. Heck even John Hanna did a damn good job. How many years was development stagnant with little to no bugs or issues? Quite a while, and I was pleased when development resumed when Fritz took over. Love the initial features, and almost immediately commented on their effectiveness with my thanks and praise. I think allot of this comes down to language of choice. Difference between compiled verses scripted. Compilers tend to help improve code on one level. Like in the past when SMTP Merak var was missing a $. A compiler would have complained about that. So other bugs MIGHT be obvious things like that. Granted there could be other issues, like run time casting, null pointers, and etc with compiled languages. Much less design with being able to modularize code, use of OO design. Instead of it all being in a big single file, with mixed comments, config stuff, html pages, and core code. It's also a bit harder for one to write bad code with a compiled vs scripted/interpreted code. But surely not impossible, bad code can be written in any language. > Perhaps the platform you're running on is causing your headaches? I run > on a Windows 2000 Server. I don't have the issues you're experiencing. That's pretty funny. Figures someone running Windows would say that. Maybe if you had a little Unix/Linux experience or etc. You might think otherwise. Perl and perl apps are WAY more native on *nix OS than windows. Years ago anything perl on Windows was worse than pulling teeth via door knob. If anything that would be more of a result of newer libraries or etc in my env. But pretty 100% it's nothing like that. The problematic areas, don't seem to be in features that are using external stuff. But I have not done a review, audit of code, so hard to comment. > Probably a configuration issue? I think the one thing I might not have done yet is post my config to the list for review. I will look into that, and see about posting it for review. In case any problems lie there, but I wouldn't bet on it myself. > Mine works fine, no problems. I use PB > Scoring and it works great! My PB features work probably ~90% of the time or more, but not 100%. There are some problems in there some where. Evident when noPB IP is blocked, or emails from deny always IP's arrive and hit the Bayesian filter or etc. > You mentioned that you're changing ASSP to > meet your needs. Maybe that has something to do with it > (relative/non-relative pathing and such, I don't know)? That MIGHT be a possibility but doubtful. Reasons there are usually when our modifications effect something. It's evident right away. Plus other Gentoo users would have same problem, and a bug would be filed. As they have been filed in the past and I worked them :) http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+mail-filter/assp > Have you tried setting up a Beta server with the latest beta version of > ASSP. It's why I was requesting a bundle I could download. So I could package for the platform and test. But based on others postings since then. I am kinda scared of 1.3.5 already. > Guess I've been very fortunate. The issues that "are" reported are > usually fixed same day or next by Fritz. I think many issues are simply > due to misconfigured configs or simple misunderstandings. I know, I've > run across it myself even. You want dates as to when I first mentioned the issues that I still experience daily. Some date back several months to September and October. Still I am holding my breath ;) Should be dead by now :) Surely Fritz and others wish that was the case. =) -- William L. Thomson Jr. Gentoo/Java
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