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From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 9 Jun 1995 00:08:26 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
> If sendmail is hard to configure, it is because it is a bad program;

This looks like a definition to me.  I don't see any reason to define
a program as bad simply because it is hard to configure.  I think that
sendmail is a good program which is also sometimes hard to configure.

I don't think that sendmail or BSD needs to be easy to use to be declared a
success.  I think BSD is an unqualified success, and whether or not someone
decides to put some sort of "user friendly" interface on it won't change that.


Larry