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From: raeburn@athena.mit.edu (Ken Raeburn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: 10 May 1993 03:28:26 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In-reply-to: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 3 May 93 18:16:25 GMT
In article <PC123.93May3191620@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk (Pete Chown) writes:
But the sendmail.cf aren't harder to
read and understand than the smail-configs. The Smail configs have more
text for the same thing.
What, so:
R@$+:$+ $:$>5@$1:$2
is just as easy to understand as:
visible_name = bar.foo.com
(to take two random extracts from the configuration files of each
program)
Taken so completely out of context, sure it is. I know what the first
one means (for "@"-tokensequence-":"-tokensequence, invoke ruleset 5
once on the whole thing, and pass on the result), but not the second
(what's visible_name, and where do you get bar, foo, and com from?).
How about providing vaguely equivalent examples of more than one line?