ending the spam.assassin.prefs.conf madness.

[Julian Field]

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Matt Kettler wrote:

> Admittedly the naive user shouldn't have NFS, but the naive user also 
> shouldn't
>
>be administering a mailserver.
>
Sorry for laying a trap, but you fell straight into that one. What do 
you mean "the naive user also shouldn't be administering a mailserver"? 
I ran into exactly this on the SpamAssassin newsgroup once, when someone 
was saying something similar in reference to amavis (whichever fork). I 
reacted violently then, and I seem no reason not to do the same here.

Sorry, but I completely disagree with this statement. A large amount of 
MailScanner users are naive or novice users. I make special effort to 
cater for them and it is much appreciated by them. If you aim towards 
them, you don't aim too high. People who are caught out by you aiming 
too low are always capable of correcting whatever you have done that 
they don't like.

You can never aim too low. Anyone (excluding present company, of course) 
thinking otherwise is being a tad thoughtless for those with less 
experience.

I aim to configure MailScanner for those 90% of users who know little of 
what they are doing. Those who know more can easily correct a 
configuration file they don't like. I appreciate that is a different 
outlook from that taken by most open-source authors. But I think my 
approach is better for my users.

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