Re: bogofilter behavior

[Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004, matthias.andree@gmx.de wrote:
>
>> Ted, you would have to use bogofilter -V instead (capital letter 'V'
>> vee).
>
> OK.  I don't use Bogofilter so I'd appreciate your help.
>
> VERSION: spam ham spam-strong ham-strong
> 0.11.0: -s -n -S -N
>
> Can you continue the table?

Not at this time, the meaning of spam-strong and ham-strong is unclear
to me and doesn't stand out in the documentation.

-s/-n - REGISTER message as spam/ham (ham = non-spam)
-S/-N - UNREGISTER message as spam/ham (undo a registration, must use
        the same message)

These options can be combined, to fix up a false training, -Sn moves a
message from spam to ham and -Ns moves it from ham to spam.

>> I'd suggest refusing to work with bogofilter versions older than
>> 0.10.2 and it's recommended to warn about versions older than 0.17.5
>> which is now three months old. Remember that bogofilter 0.X versions
>> are still under development.
>
> It's hard to give the boot to the users like that.

The users chose to use a development version, with all the implications
such as a minor release becoming incompatible with the previous,
anything but the current version unsupported, frequent updates and the
like.

0.11.0, when the meaning of the registration options was changed for the
last time, was released in March 2003 - over 17 months ago, which is an
entire era for a software under development.

It's sensible to request frequent updates of users using a development
version. Don't waste your time on the 0.1 % of machines that run
outdated bogofilter versions - use the registration as mentioned above
and refuse work with versions before and excluding 0.11.0.

> Gnus is in Emacs, and that means we have to handle old software too
> occasionally.

It's not going to help anybody if someone uses some two-year-old version
of bogofilter today.

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Matthias Andree

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