>
> >> >        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.
>
> Oh, so now you're saying it _is_ ok to be able to tailor things?
>
        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]
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