MailScanner ANNOUNCE: 4.64.3 released

[Brad Beckenhauer]

>>> On 10/2/2007 at 10:28 AM, in message <fdto3d$qed$1 at sea.gmane.org>,
Scott Silva
<ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> on 10/2/2007 4:30 AM Julian Field spake the following:
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>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many thanks for all your work on Blastwave. We are already using
it here
>>>> on some of our web servers, and it has proved to be very useful
and
>>>> timesaving. Thank you!
>>> Jules,
>>>
>>> May I take from your praise that you are not against MailScanner
being 
>>> added to a repository?
>>>
>>> I think Dag Wiers will be glad to add MailScanner to rpmforge so
you 
>>> have no worries about setting up a YUM repositor. It will allow 
>>> everyone to do what they do best.
>> I initially always said no to requests like this, as I liked to keep
a 
>> close eye on download stats (hence my 1 million downloads figure). 
>> However, MailScanner is getting into more and more distros now, so
the 
>> website download stats no longer represent the number of sites using

>> MailScanner in any meaningful way.
>> 
>> So there's not much point in saying no any more, I've lost control 
>> anyway. So I would be most pleased if Dag would like to add it to
his 
>> repository. If there's anything reasonable that he needs me to do in

>> return, I'll do what I can.
>> 
>> Jules
> You can always add some sort of "phone home with permission" type of
thing 
> to 
> keep track of the installed base. Maybe something that sends back OS
and 
> maybe 
> a randomly generated and locally stored signature. That way you would
get a 
> better idea of how many mailscanners are out there.
> Any body who is very paranoid could opt out.

I used Arch Linux at home for a number of years and somebody wrote a
neat package that uploaded generic/sanitized system information/stats
that searchable on a website.  I suggested it as option in June 2006.

Below is the link to the website, source code and the stats it
generated.   I think having a configurable option in MailScanner to
allow MailScanner to "phone home" periodically with some generic system
stats (Running MailScanner version, OS, number of cpu's, RAM, would be
incredibly interesting.
http://archlinux.org/~simo/archstats/

Brad