bogus bogotuning

[Greg Louis]

On 20040128 (Wed) at 1832:12 -0500, Jason A. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:57, Greg Louis wrote:
> > I don't know what you run, but on a pentium 1.2 with half a gig of ram
> > all that takes 47 seconds.  Add 15 more for me to type in the command
> > to do it, because I am a slow typist.  One minute two seconds.
> 
> First, my gateway/mail server is an old P2 350MHz.  Second, its not
> useful to argue over the exact amount of time, the point is that it is
> more effort times every new version of bogofilter that is released

Well, I leave it to you to decide whether it's worth it or not.  That's
the beauty of open source: if it's worth maybe four minutes every two
weeks, you can do it.  If not, you can wait till you need to try another
experiment and do it then.  If it's not worth even that, why are you
spending so much time bugging me about it?

> > I don't recall, in this whole thread, seeing you attempt to address the
> > negative effect I have repeatedly postulated: encouraging naïve users
> > to waste time with worthless bogotune runs.
> 
> Why do you assume it encourages?  I have addressed this point
> repeatedly, namely the warning!

As I've written before, most people would assume that an option would
not be implemented unless it were in some way worth using.  Some would
say the fun of experimenting with something I know is useless is worth
badgering me about, obviously.  I disagree, obviously.  Writing code to
implement an option and then writing a warning that says "doing this is
useless" doesn't appeal to me.  It doesn't even make sense to me.

I understand the "why 2000 and not 1999" argument, but all I can say is
one has to draw the line somewhere.  If you want to run bogotune below
the limits, you change the code for yourself or find someone to do it
for you outside of the mainline distribution.  It's your assumption of
responsibility.

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