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Xref: sserve comp.unix.user-friendly:2823 comp.unix.solaris:22107 comp.unix.programmer:19674 comp.unix.misc:13720 comp.unix.aux:15267 comp.unix.bsd:14778 comp.unix.aix:43361 Newsgroups: comp.unix.user-friendly,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.aux,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands Message-ID: <id.GAKC1.A2C@nmti.com> Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI References: <33af70$8rd@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <33l6j0$jii@hamlet.umd.edu> <3554@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <33llck$p1h@hamlet.umd.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 14:56:44 GMT Lines: 25 In article <33llck$p1h@hamlet.umd.edu>, Peter Brewer <brewer@hamlet.umd.edu> wrote: > Consider the 'web', the undirected graph which has now become several > forests called the Internet. Given all of the possible routes and > addresses sendmail must be considered a brilliant invention despite > its complexity. Without it there would be no Usenet, no Internet, no > Information Highway. I guess you have to have a 'degree' in regular > expression parsing to really understand it. I've always been kinda > partial to it because it has always gotten the job done with less > muss and fuss. Smail has always been a way to keep track of the > huge myriad of uucp addresses but not a replacement for sendmail > which handles multiple mailers, networks, and address schemes. I use smail 2.5 with multiple mailers, networks, and address schemes. We have UUCP, OSI, TCP/IP, and UUCP over TCP/IP in house! I only wish I had a standalone SMTP *transport* package that was as solid as sendmail. For routing, sendmail is massive overkill, massively overcomplex for what it does... but it's absolutely solid underneath, which I haven't found to be true for anything else. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' Network Management Technology Incorporated 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Hast Du heute schon Deinen Wolf umarmt?"