From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 16 22:48:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13075 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA13021 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 24456 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1998 06:55:53 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 17 Mar 1998 06:55:53 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-031298 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:55:53 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: jack Subject: Re: Sendmail going commercial, and ? Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jonathan M. Bresler" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Mar-98 jack wrote: .. > _IF_ the sendmail opponents bothered to read the announcement > they only saw what they wanted to see and totally ignored the > paragarph that states: .. Don't take it seriously Jack. This is all good hearted. Also, we are no dummies and realize the grandfather clauses in US commerce, etc. On the serious side of it, there is a strong, well educated, and well founded resistance to what/how sendmail works. This objection was valid in the early 1980's, and still is valid today. The only true virtue of sendmail is that it was there while nothing else was. Well, this is not true, nor accurate either. But it is the ``standard'' SMTP MTA with UUCP support that functions. To quote its heritage, etc., as proof of quality is akin to saying that M$ Lose95 is the best O/S, in the world, or that Messy-Word is the best word processor. Both statements are as incorrect as can be. BTW, I am NOT putting sendmail in the same class as M$ stuff. To do so is purely offensive to Sendmail, its creator, maintainers, and fans. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message