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From: ylee@csl.dl.nec.com (Ying-Da Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Idempotence of S3
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.223723.25275@csl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 22:37:23 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.065813.24921@pa.dec.com> <1991Apr16.165044.21308@csl.dl.nec.com> <1991Apr16.213322.18417@pa.dec.com>
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In article <1991Apr16.213322.18417@pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.165044.21308@csl.dl.nec.com> ylee@csl.dl.nec.com said:
># Why don't the basic principles of good programming
># apply in sendmail.cf?  It IS programming, isn't it?
>
>No.  It is configuration.  Like TECO, you can do Towers of Hanoi in
>sendmail.cf if you are patient enough.  But there are better languages
>if programming is your goal, and the tool you are misusing will suck
>the blood of every maintainer who follows you.

Well, Paul, it would have added a great deal more weight to
your response if you could answer the questions or dispute the
reasoning that lead to those two lines in my posting.

Remember, Paul, you are the one who declared "S3 is supposed to
be idempotent" without any supporting evidence to start with.
Why should questions of "why?" and "where is it documented?" get
you so agitated?
	
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