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--- Comment #30 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-12-07 16:06:26 
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"The policy has been clear for a long time now, we add network rules only at
major
version releases"

I am unfortunately unaware of any such policy.  In fact, since I've sort of
spearheaded trying to write the policy for RBLs and their inclusion, I can tell
you definitively that there is no such policy.

However, network rules have caused angst and need to be treated with care on a
case-by-case basis.  That we can all agree on.

In this particular case, I believe it's a good list and worthy of inclusion by
default. 

If it makes people have less anxiety to release it wrapped in a 3.4.0 version
block check, fine.  If people like my idea to have a disable_rules channel and
publish this as-is with a score 0.0 rules channel to disable the rule, I'm cool
with that too.

But I would like to see more focus on tickets that are holding up 3.4.0 and
compromise on those tickets even if we have some 3.4.1 targets, etc.

And overall, our release policy is that we release things for the MAJORITY of
users NOT for the hyper-minority that is processing 30 million emails a day and
can't afford an extra DNS query, etc.

My expectation is that people running the uber-systems have people on the dev
list, etc. and would know how to add the score 0's NOW prior to the updates
channel pushing out the rule.

Regards,
KAM

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