On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:31:17AM -0400, Warren Togami wrote: > Problems > ======== > 1) It is only really usable on Linux/Unix hosts, or maybe Cygwin with a > bunch of effort, although not easily with any Windows clients. Even if > you are a Linux user, it is *TOO HARD* to setup and get it to work properly.
I may be a bit biased, but it takes all of 5 minutes to get setup,
though our documentation may not make it look that simple. The scripts
to do the heavy lifting are available in the source tree.
> 2) As a result, most if not all people sorting corpora and participating
> in nightly mass checks and corpus scoring are somehow related to a
> single demographic: computer hackers.
True, though I don't think that's a result of #1. People find building a
corpus difficult. Maintaining that corpus properly is even more difficult
IMO (virus/worm mails, bounces, misfiled messages, etc). Even those of
us who are currently involved with mass-checks find this problematic.
> 1) MUST be able to run on Windows, where most normal users are.
[...]
> Possible Implementation Details
> ===============================
> 1) Implementing this really wouldn't be all that hard because you would
> use existing components like perl, spamassassin, ssh, and rsync.
ssh isn't required, but perl, the SA required perl modules, and rsync are.
[...]
> 5) The use of existing FOSS components and a cross-platform toolkit like
> gtk+ or qt would allow this to build on Linux too.
6) No one in the current development group has experience doing this
kind of stuff (as far as I'm aware), so there will likely be no one
available to maintain it.
7) I don't know if the SA project could make such a package available.
It requires non-ASL licensed code (perl, perl modules, rsync, etc,)
which may not be compatible.
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