[wplug] Needing help with sendmail

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Sun Mar 5 22:39:38 EST 2006


On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:07:38PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> I have all the respect in the world for Eric Allman, but let's remember
> that Sendmail was written before the first reference implementations of
> TCP/IP.  How it has survived so long .. . .

Before he wrote sendmail, he wrote the "-me" package of troff macros,
which was in widespread use when we were at Berkeley. I suspect that
all that troff hacking affected him :-) The -me package has survived
too, and is still distributed with groff.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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