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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:20:17 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes:

>Pretty soon you'll be wanting to configure sendmail.  Install NNTP.
>Attach a few ttys.  Get on the net.  Get PPP or slip. 
... etc, etc

Don't people running Windows send mail ?
Access the net ?

There is absolutely no reason why this should be any harder under Unix.
If sendmail is hard to configure, it is because it is a bad program;
it has nothing at all to do with Unix.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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