On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 22:33 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> > > Please update your description of your SpamAssassin plugin on
> > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins to change the line
> > > "Updated: Old" to "Updated: YYYY-MM-DD" to represent today's date.
> > 
> > I don't think the "updated" date should represent today, if that is not
> > the date of the last update.
> 
> I do.  I don't care when the plugin was last modified.  I do care when it
> was last... confirmed not horribly broken.  So "updated" might not be
> the best wording.

So do not change the Update entry. Create new entry instead.

Update means just that. And last updated = old is about the same as a
don't use disclaimer.

> > > We have had problems with unmaintained SpamAssassin addons becoming
> > > harmful, so I'm planning to start deleting plugins listed on this page
> > > without a reasonably recent date.
> > 
> > This really should not be based on the update date.
> 
> I'm not actually going to delete anything.  I'll move stuff to a separate
> page of unmaintained stuff or something if necessary.  

Good.

> > Harmful? Which ones are that? Are they just incompatible with 3.3, or
> 
> I was mostly referring to rule sets which are now counter-productive.

Rule-sets shouldn't be listed on the CustomPlugins page you referred to.
And SARE rule-sets e.g. are almost entirely dead by now anyway. Yes,
they should not be used.

> > Thanks for caring about this!
> 
> Thanks for the encouragement.

-- 
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main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}

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