Dennis Peterson wrote:
I believe that best practice with this sort of thing is to only issue
warnings and not to actually force a potentially harmful change without
*express* consent of the user.
Suggest at least one way to inform all the users successfully that
obsolete software is going to die soon - and don't let it slip past
you in your solution that the ClamAV people have know way of knowing
who they need to inform. And recall too, this: Filling their logs
with warnings didn't work. Posting the notice on the front page of
their website didn't work. Running commentary in this list didn't
work. Announcing it in their Announcements list didn't work.
You don't know a way, they don't know a way, and I know for a fact
it cannot be done
If you start with the pre-requisite that you must stop old versions
working then you are correct. Remove that pre-requisite and you are
not.
More than one suggestion has been made of how the team could have
"just moved on" and left the old versions behind - without having to
kill them. These suggestions have been rubbished for various (mostly
false) reasons.
People keep saying it's the user/admin's fault, that the user/admin
should take all the blame, and that the user/admin should suffer the
consequences. Fair enough - how this for a really odd idea - why not
just stop providing AV updates to the older versions, and let the
users/admins take the responsibility and consequences if they
continue to ignore the warnings that updates have stopped working. If
they ignore "things aren't working" errors then I'd agree with you -
let them deal with it. I don't agree with the argument that "things
are not optimal" is a warning to upgrade before things go bang.
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