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Critical Eye on SpamAssassin
ErrorBase writes "In this Infoworld article, Logan G. Harbaugh makes a great deal about an ancient (2.44) version of SpamAssassin comparing it with newer comercial variants.
Quote : You get what you pay for. [...] However, it took more than 10 times as long to install and configure SpamAssassin as it did any of the other products. "
Why did he not ask Kevin Railsback who had the whole thing working some while ago?)"
It takes me no more than 5 to 10 minutes max to get spamassassin working. I don't know what kind of idiot the author is, but he sure is a full-blown member of the idiot species.
Hell, I just reinstalled a distro on my desktop and had spamassassin up and running within 15 minutes of booting up the first time.
What. A. Tard.
In Bushworld, they struggle to keep church and state separate in Iraq as they increasingly merge the two in America.
anger1:~# time apt-get install spamassassin
... 14564 files and directories currently installed.) .../archives/spamassassin_2.41-2_i386.deb) ... ...
.../archives/spamc_2.60-2_i386.deb) ... ...
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
spamassassin spamc
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 676kB of archives. After unpacking 1035kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main spamassassin 2.41-2 [506kB]
Get:2 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main spamc 2.60-2 [170kB]
Fetched 676kB in 24s (28.2kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package spamassassin.
(Reading database
Unpacking spamassassin (from
Setting up spamassassin (2.41-2)
Selecting previously deselected package spamassassin.
Unpacking spamc (from
Setting up spamc (2.60-2)
real 0m47.161s
user 0m11.450s
sys 0m1.100s
anger1:~#
And I'm ready to go while your Gentoy is still compiling. Yes, if you want loss of productivity, then Gentoy Linux is for you!