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?)"

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Re:He already sent an open letter to SAtalk

[ericspinder]

From the mailing list (liar tag mine):

<liar> I stated that I used the 2.44 release of SpamAssassin for two reasons - because it was the version shipping with the latest release of Red Hat 9 and because it would illustrate how much the state of the art has changed in the last year or two.</liar>

I might have missed it, but in the article he doesn't state these "reasons". In fact his conclusion on it whould leave you to believe that SpamAssassin wasn't advancing at all.
From the article:

SpamAssassin is the perfect example of first-generation techniques becoming outmoded by advances in spamming technology.

See nothing about this "old" version or "the one that ships with Red Hat 9.0". Off hand, I am not familiar his work, but both of the books on Amazon are out of print. One from '99 and the other from '98, talk about being outmoded!
Novell's Problem-Solving Guide for Netware Systems (The Inside Story)
and
Troubleshooting Netware Systems