Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> But, I'll ask anyway: did you really intend to suggest that Sendmail
>> was originally written for Windows NT over twenty years ago?
> My intent was to point out how it is unlike most other Unix programs.
> For example, there's lpr, lpd, and lpq. Sendmail folds all those
> concepts into one program.
Just like INN. At the time that INN was written, this was considered a
major feature (and indeed was a huge win in terms of performance). It's
also worth noting that sendmail started out as a much simpler program and
grew in complexity as mail did. It's as huge and complex as it is largely
because it has grown with mail and Unix and has never to my knowledge gone
through a ground-up rewrite (which it, by this point, needs, just like
most software that's grown randomly over the years).
> I like Henry Spencer's .signature quip:
> "Those who do not understand Unix are bound to reinvent it, poorly."
I hardly think Eric Allman doesn't understand Unix. :) But he, and
sendmail, come from a very early era of it.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
