On 11/29/18 11:13 AM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 11/29/2018 11:48 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>> Indeed. Sendmail got a lot of hate but mostly from people in pure
>> user@host.domain worlds.
>
> Do you have any idea why the user@host.domain community hated on Sendmail
> more than other communities?
They didn't need its flexibility, so they had all kinds of bones to pick
with the architecture.
The problem we had at the university was that it got things almost right. Almost. And to track down WTF the macros were doing that caused the almost was, well, almost impossible due to the twisty, turny nature of the implementation that made the twists in colossal cave look sane and predictable.
Without extreme tweaking, it wouldn't handle foo!bar!
bas%bitnet@grubkle.edu correctly... Mostly because it was ambiguous and the definition of correct changed as we went from being a UUCP leaf node to being a full denizen of the internet on NSFNET.
Warner