On Mon, 7 May 2001, Craig Harding wrote:

> Why is it that some people have no sense of humour?

Because humour is no laughing matter.

> And it's not entirely a humorous exercise. Despite having run unix
> machines for most of the last decade, I've never used sendmail. One of
> the strongest influences in that was reading messages from Chip
> Salzenberg, who used to regularly reply to "how do I do X with
> sendmail?" questions with "install smail; see <url>" in various unix
> newsgroups. I've read enough about sendmail to not want to have to deal
> with it (and I'm fortunately in an environment where my employer isn't
> going to tell me to).

Been flamed for suggesting that someone should stop using Sendmail in
favour of Exim... can't remember the exact piss-poor analogy the grumpy
Aussie used, but it was something about suggesting to one car owner that
s/he switch brands.

Anyway, Sendmail is only for those who carry The Great Magic Chicken Foot.
Mere mortals should use something else.

-- 
Regards,
Juha
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