29 Nov
2018
29 Nov
'18
8:36 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:33 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 11/29/18 11:13 AM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
The problem we had at the university was that it got things almost right.
Almost. And to track down WTF the macros were doing that caused the almost
was, well, almost impossible due to the twisty, turny nature of the
implementation that made the twists in colossal cave look sane and
predictable.
Without extreme tweaking, it wouldn't handle foo!bar!bas%bitnet(a)grubkle.edu
correctly... Mostly because it was ambiguous and the definition of correct
changed as we went from being a UUCP leaf node to being a full denizen of
the internet on NSFNET.
Warner
On 11/29/2018 11:48 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
Sendmail
Indeed. Sendmail got a lot of hate but mostly
from people in pure
user(a)host.domain worlds.
Do you have any idea why the user(a)host.domain community hated on more than other communities?
They didn't need its flexibility, so they had all kinds of bones to pick
with the architecture.