On 5/18/07, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Plug -- you've been very helpful. Now, if you like, we can enter into an endless debate on why this is Postfix's fault, and how "real men" use $MTA and edit configs with $EDITOR instead of $INFERIOR_EDITOR.
When I was a kid, we didn't have mail transit authorities! We sat up all night, waiting for the voltages on our network cables to change, and when they did we punched the 1's and 0's into cards, and then re-opened a connection to the destination mainframe and entered the protocol via hex codes! And we liked it! For a setup that's almost as ridiculous, read Mother Earth, Mother Board by Neal Stephenson: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html It was written in 1996 but (not surprisingly, given the author in question) is still quite good. He goes into a lot of history (telegraphs used to be digital) and discusses what was then the state of the art in undersea cable management. The part about ridiculous setups begins on page 19 under the heading "Thomson and Whitehouse", but if you've got time I recommend reading the entire thing. Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
