that old GNU/Linux argument
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Sat Jul 19 18:41:47 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:46:32 -0500,
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Sendmail does go back even further, perhaps to the days when there were
> dozens of computers on the internet - but without something more
> interesting along with the ability to reuse the code it might have
> stayed that way.
One of the reasons sendmail was so complicated is because in those days there
wasn't a single dominent 'internet'. Sendmail could handle email being sent to
multiple different networks such as arpanet and uunet. (Bitnet was important
than as well, but I am not sure if the gateways to bitnet used sendmail.)
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