From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 17 14:49:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14843 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14764; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199803172248.OAA14764@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail going commercial, and ? In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 17, 98 02:30:30 pm" To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:48:39 -0800 (PST) Cc: molter@logic.it, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Thanx. I think sendmail is worth studying. Itis typical Unix thing. The > original set of goals was never fully studied (the let's hack code first. > Ask why later). The design happened along the way (efficiency, security, > scalability, and lack thereof). To add insult to injury, the configuration > ``language'' was optimized for the machine, not for the human, totally > missing the purpose of computers and sooftware (to serve us mortals). that's not really fair. sendmail was created under conditions very different from our own. considering the change that its seen, it holds up very well. please remember that in 1981 a vax 11/750 with rk-07 disk drives and 512MB of memory was a BIG deal and significant cost. wasnt 1 SpecInt originally supposed to approximate a single vax (dont pick nits ;) the box that i am using now overpowers that vax. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message