On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Stevan Bajić <ste...@bajic.ch> wrote:
> { stats }
> Fragile? UHA! You really need to reevaluate your Anti-Spam solution.
> Whatever you use it should NOT be fragile. Resource intensive is another
> thing but fragile? Fragile in a server environment? This should not be the
> case regardless what Anti-Spam solution you use.
>
That is my point. The old installation instructions were a disaster (and
made it -very- easy to screw up upgrades - "oops, 2 versions ago you
selected these options, and now that you have added this unrelated option
I'm just going to fail to work".) I accept that it may be better now, and
I'm going to consider upgrading instead of just replacing, but at the end of
the day I need something that goes in and "just works". I don't need it to
do a million billion db operations constantly, I just need it to catch the
small amounts of spam that we accept these days.
Part of why I'm reevaluating is that postfix-policyd did as much to stop
spam as dspam did. We were accepting on the order of 25k spam messages a day
before dspam (circa 3.6.x). With dspam they were nearly all caught - and the
false-spam rate was very low, so the spam folder could be left to languish.
Once postfix-policyd started greylisting, honeypot-banning and so forth, it
went down to 1-300 a day and dspam's accuracy cratered. Upgrading to 3.8
(and clearing the old data out) helped some, but not a lot.
With that in mind, after the disastrous (for the project/app)
acquisition/forking/abandonment, I'm in no hurry to rush up to the newest
version. And a lot of the discussion on the list before that release
centered around "we should put -something- out so that people think its
alive again" and less around a standard, reliable release.
(And today's "omg you use it so you -must- contribute!" message doesn't help
the case.)
I'm not writing off dspam in my environments, but neither am I rushing to
alphatest new versions of a historically unstable, fragile project.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint
What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone?
Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first
_______________________________________________
Dspam-user mailing list
Dspam-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspam-user
