{Spam?} netiquette on "wiki" website

[Furnish, Trever G]

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vimdiff?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Steen, Glenn
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 1:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: {Spam?} netiquette on "wiki" website
> 
> 
> Mandrake... er.... Mandriva (Oh how silly that feels to type) 
> has/had some tool like that specifically for fixing up 
> rpmnew/rpmold files... Seems to be a part of MandrakeUpdate 
> (gtkperl script... perhaps one can borrow:-). Nah.
> 
> Better look at kdiff3 or xxdiff. At least kdiff3 seems to do 
> what you want.
> 
> -- Glenn (who oc course don't use these.... The terminal is 
> my first love:-)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   MailScanner mailing list on behalf of Ed Bruce
> Sent:   to 2005-04-14 19:45
> To:     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Cc:	
> Subject:        Re: {Spam?} netiquette on "wiki" website
> Julian Field wrote:
> 
> > Ed Bruce wrote:
> >
> > > Julian Field wrote:
> > >
> > >> Take a look in your ~root/.spamassassin directory. 
> Remove any files
> > with
> > >> whitelist in their name.
> > >> And go into /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf 
> and disable the
> > >> auto-whitelist functionality.
> > >> "man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" for more help on what the 
> setting is
> > >> called.
> > >>
> > > When I did the last upgrade seems my spam.assassin.prefs.conf was
> > > changed more then I thought. First the path I used for 
> bayes was changed
> > > (and lots of spam started getting through, CEO was 
> pissed) and also AWL
> > > functionality was turned on. I need to slow down a little 
> when upgrading
> > > and really notice the differences.
> >
> > Something is wrong in that case. The spam.assassin.prefs.conf file
> > should not be overwritten if you have modified it, you 
> should just get a
> > .rpmnew version of it as well.
> >
> I did get the .rpmnew and did a quick diff between it and my file. I
> didn't notice any great difference, because I was in a hurry, so used
> the rpmnew, my mistake. Like I said, I need to slow down a little when
> changing my files.
> 
> Somewhat offtopic, there was a great gui diff tool with SGI IRIX. Does
> anybody know of a good GUI based diff for Linux. What I liked 
> about the
> IRIX one was I could go through the differences and choose from which
> file to keep. Then when I was done it would save out a new 
> file with all
> my choices. I tried to get the IRIX version working once, but 
> it didn't
> use OpenGL.
> 
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