[TUHS] man-page style

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Fri Nov 30 05:13:53 AEST 2018


On 11/29/2018 11:48 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Indeed.  Sendmail got a lot of hate but mostly from people in pure 
> user at host.domain worlds.

Do you have any idea why the user at host.domain community hated on 
Sendmail more than other communities?

> I lived in the UUCP / BitNet / Arpanet world and while sendmail was 
> definitely not the easiest thing to configure, once you got it right it 
> just kept working (unlike UUCP that seemed to need constant babysitting).

I think that's still fair to say.

Though simple Sendmail configurations are relatively easy to set up.



-- 
Grant. . . .
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