[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Per Jessen wrote: > > >> > who's still on 2.64 with no exact plans to upgrade? > > Me too. I'm a Debian user, so I'm sticking with 2.64 as long as it's > working well. Unless 3.X goes into Sarge, which I suspect is unlikely.
I am also a Debian user, running Debian woody stable, running the www.backports.org spamassassin-3.0.2 version and am very happy with it. Running Debian stable is not a good reason to avoid upgrading spamassassin to the best available version. Running stable systems with unchanging versions of software is fine when you are behind firewalls and isolated from the changing internet. It is okay to run appliances there. But I would go so far as to claim that if you are interacting with the quite hostile Internet then you must keep the software that is doing the interacting up to date. Many times people are simply thinking security updates only. But when talking email it also includes virus checking filters and spam checking filters too. Your system may be stable but the Internet is not. Off-Topic Drift: For those not familiar with the Debian debates the problem is that releases for things like virus checkers and spam filters get stale quickly. Therefore there is a move to avoid putting them in a release at all! In a release they will get stuck so avoid that and don't put them into a release. The movement is toward a "volatile" pseudo-release that contains the latest software for things like this that need regular updates. I see this as more like the BSD model where they have a stable core system and then add ports to it. However this is more unstable than ports since the software in volatile might change quite often. Sorry for the thread drift but it seemed topical. Bob
