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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!not-for-mail From: tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Monroe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group Date: 26 Jun 1996 09:20:26 -0700 Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4qro0a$2mc@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <4qk717$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qrkv7$53h@hops.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu In article <4qrkv7$53h@hops.entertain.com>, Darryl Watson <dwatson@abwam.com> wrote: > >There has GOT to be a better way! I for one am willing to dump the >old sendmail for a completely new (and incompatible) email paradigm! As eric@csua.berkeley.edu once responded to someone's programming language question: -- > I'd really like to have a programming language that evokes these feelings... >Something that is painful to use, anti-social, and generally makes you want to >slit your wrists, but you keep using it anyway. /etc/sendmail.cf -- But isn't that exactly what you want in a programming language? :) (Funny, it resembles the "hate" part of my love-hate relationship with C++...) Enjoy sendmail while you can. Admittedly, it's a scary piece of software, programmed entirely in the C preprocessor (Really! I couldn't find a single line of C code in the bloody thing!) but it works, and it works well enough for me, and quite frankly, i'm not demented enough to attempt to replace it. -- Tony Monroe, in a nice white wine sauce with couscous tmonroe@csua.berkeley.edu ObURL: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~tmonroe Chief Squid, Tony's SquidWarez Incorporated / CSUA Secretary, Fall 1996 Proprietor of Dingbat Wizwarp's Transmutation Tavern and Alteration Apothecary