>>>>> "K" == Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> Pardon me for putting words in someone's mouth, but I got the K> impression that the original poster's point was not to advocate K> disabling signature checking, but to suggest that the error message K> should be more useful. Yes, I'm saying instead of just letting sa-update fail with the generic GNU message and GNU hyperlink, setting the user off on a PhD Thesis effort of trying to figure out what to do, instead just detect the problem and print out: ---------------- Hello, this is the sa-update program talking to you. We've detected a problem. You need to do $ wget http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/GPG.KEY $ sa-update --import GPG.KEY and then run sa-update again. Thank you. ---------------- Have that hardwired into the sa-update program, ready and waiting for the next time it fails. What could be wrong with that? You can even add: ---------------- If that doesn't work, use sa-update --nogpg, and consult http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/ ...