Facilitating installation and update of anti-spam filter

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi all,

Removing from TODO (which should one day be moved to the Github issue 
system) what has been done since the last 2.6.0 major release, I see:

* Add a generic, modular anti-spam and anti-abuse filter, off by default,
   but coming with INN and prominently mentioned in the INSTALL
   documentation.  [Andrew Gierth has work in progress that may be usable
   for this.]

I do not know where I can find his work.  Nevertheless, it may not 
easily integrate into our current releases.

What would you think of having an "updatenewsfilter" program (or any 
better name) that would permit installing Cleanfeed and/or PyClean (to 
the choice of the news admin) and updating an existing installation?

It would compare installed files with files from their upstream Github 
repository, show the differences to the news admin, and update them if 
asked to.
If the news server does not have Internet access, then installation 
could be done from a local directory.

This program could be run out of cron, and send a mail if a new version 
should be deployed.


... and this program could also do the same for control.ctl and maybe 
other configuration files.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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