simplicity vs safety with complexity

[john]

Same here, the upgrade was a total mess (aptitude update + database 
version mismatch +
no backups = end of story). Which was sorted out with the help of the 
good people of this very mailing list.
Everything is working fine again now, and I learned a lot from it. But 
it took way too much time..
Now that it's fixed I don't mind, but at the time I decided to switch to 
spamassassin. Didn' t like it much though.
Bogofilter is now at 0.93.4 and running smoothly.

I think the default (debian build) should have transactions disabled , 
then the hardcore users can install the source and compile one with 
transactions enabled. The transactions logs need to be purged as well, 
so that's probably already too much hassle for the average user.
Bogofilter was working just fine until the upgrade, and now it's running 
just fine again. On the surface it makes no difference, with or without 
transactions.
And being the only user on my system, personally I don't think I need a 
professional database environment, just a wordlist will do nicely.

Even so, it's extremely kewl that you guys ask for the opinion of the 
bogofilter users ...

P


Greg McCann wrote:

>On 1/25/2005 at 12:24 PM Boris 'pi' Piwinger <3.14 at piology.org> wrote:
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>>Many people have
>>problems using the new feature. This seems to be manly due
>>to the need to understand -- at least to some degree -- the
>>underlying database. This is way to much for simple users.
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>My recent upgrade to bogofilter version 0.93.4 was a disaster and I have reverted to 0.91.1.  I could probably figure out what the problem is if I spent enough time on it, but maintaining bogofilter is only a very small part of the 1,001 things I have to do every day.  I don't have the time to mess with it and I don't want to make a career out of maintaining bogofilter.  I just want it to work, with a minimum of fuss.
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>Just a simple user's $0.02 worth,
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>Greg McCann
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