Wed, 30 Mar 1994 08:50:19 -0600
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> >> > IMHO any system which includes a file like
> >> > sendmail.cf which people can tinker with
> >> > is severely under-designed. Mail systems
> >> > should not be tailored. Mail systems
> >> > should have simple addresses and tailoring
> >> > should be unnecessary.
> >>
> >> Yea - no options, no nothing. Gee, I'll be you really love the MAC :-)
> >>
> > It may come as a suprise that it is possible to offer
> > options in better ways. Software companies did it for 30
> > years before the last 5.
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> Oh, so now you're saying it _is_ ok to be able to tailor things?
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Providing information is not necessarily the same
as tailoring. Having options is not necessarily
the same as tailoring. (Giving the name of a
DECNET gateway is an example of some optional
information there has to be a way of giving.)
I still do believe that mail systems should not
be 'tailored.' If you want to consider giving it
vital information 'tailoring' then the matter is
down to semantics.
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Mark J Strawcutter Internet: [log in to unmask]
Director, Systems and Communications BITNET: MJSTRAW@IUP
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Voice: (412) 357-4007
Indiana, PA 15705 "you can't nail jello to a tree"
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