From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The new ridiculous license Message-ID: <20030620160834.Y2250@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <3EF3148D.9040208@tommyk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3EF3148D.9040208@tommyk.com>; from Jason Gurtz on Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:05:01AM -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:08:34 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2dce082-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:05:01AM -0400, Jason Gurtz wrote: > > The ammount of "dedication" required to learn to setup sendmail is > daunting but my experience has been that once it's setup it just works. > Well, some of Sendmail's good press is unjustified, and so is some of its notoriety. My take is that those who know sendmail intimately (I wish I could count myself amongst them) are many and capable, making sendmail the best tool for the job. > Of course, that the relevent O'Reilly book is well over a thousand pages > doesn't bode well for it. > I guess the very complexity acts as a selection criterion, a bit the way FORTRAN produced amongst the most sophisticated scientific programs. I found the O'Reilly book quite readable, actually. One of few tomes that size I have read from cover to cover (and forgotten much more than I remember - I was in Botswana at the time, not the most vibrant of environments, reading the bat book was a good way of killing some very boring evenings :-) ++L