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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:20:17 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3r556h$cnj@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <D9K4Iz.BJM@midway.uchicago.edu> <3qo2af$nqo@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3qtgfi$7od@anshar.shadow.net> <3qtpa9$p95@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <SJA.95Jun7113536@lk-hp-16.hut.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes: >Pretty soon you'll be wanting to configure sendmail. Install NNTP. >Attach a few ttys. Get on the net. Get PPP or slip. ... etc, etc Don't people running Windows send mail ? Access the net ? There is absolutely no reason why this should be any harder under Unix. If sendmail is hard to configure, it is because it is a bad program; it has nothing at all to do with Unix. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland