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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: uucp scripts (continued)
Message-ID: <46529@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 90 01:49:07 GMT
References: <1990Nov9.132804.26574@panix.uucp> <46455@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Nov12.075943.2355@panix.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov12.075943.2355@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:

>>I personally hardly belive that one should spend a lot of time fixing
>>sendmail so it's userfriendly, especially in the advent of new 
>>electronic mail networks and X.500 servers.
>
>User friendly? How about mail-friendly? I don't care how ugly it is. I just
>want it to work the way it's supposed to. I can't wait five years for X.500
>to get my mail across town, I can walk it over considerably faster than that.

>A/UX 2.0 is a wonderful product. But I'm afraid you're defending one of its
>weakest parts...

Note that sendmail is a universal mail switching UNIX application, and if you
think it's weak, don't complain on A/UX 2.0 then. Personally I think its
amusing that marketing people talk a lot about UNIX networking capabilitites.

...well, they have never done any sendmail.cf hacking... And I hope that
the UNIX community does not create such burdensome standards programs
in future.

Regards,
Kent 


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