Logan, the author, responded to me. ">I'm sorry that you didn't like the review. There are thousands >of add-ins and add-ons for SA, as well as many commercial and >free products that extend its functionality. Testing AS with >all the various possibly permutations would take months and >hundreds of hours of research to complete. I am unable to do >that for a review that pays a few hundred dollars. I will keep >the information in mind for future reviews, though. It sounds >like it's quite a system. The biggest problem I have with SA >as an enterprise system is that finding things like RDJ and >SARE are not easy, while commercial solutions put everything >in one box. "
So....well......there you have it. --Chris (biting my lip.) >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonas Eckerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:34 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: SpamAssassin reviewed in InfoWorld > > >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:50:50 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: > >> > <http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/09/28TCspam_1.html> > >> They compare a standard 2.63 install to 2 products that get >> constant updates. For it to be fair they should have included SARE >> rules and SURBL. > >In that case, they should have compoared both with and without the >SARE rules. > >Depending on what they were actually trying to find out, they may well >have done a good test. Wether a solution is complete in and off itself >or wether it needs some extra stuff to be really good is a valid. Ease >of use for newbies and people with severe time constraints can be just >as important as functionality. > >I really think they should have tested SA 3 as well though. > >> SA would have kicked the other software's butt! > >That's kinda strange considering that the other softwares does use SA, >and can use the SARE rules and SURBL as well. > >Actually, the test could have specified what version of SA was >installed with the softwares, wether it used SURBL (I know that the >author of Canit-Pro recommends using SURBL with SA) and wether any of >the SARE and other additional rules were included in the install. > >/Jonas > >-- >Jonas Eckerman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.fsdb.org/ > > >
