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Subject: Re: give the World some credit
From: "Jacob W. Haller" <spog at jwgh.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:42:14 -0400
David Chase <chase at theworld.com> wrote:
Francis Litterio wrote:The World is running Sendmail, so this hashtable-based whitelist would have to be built into Sendmail, no? That might be a non-starter for The World -- although the current spam filter is probably also built into Sendmail.Is Sendmail still the only option for Unix? That's pretty pathetic.David
Well, sendmail is the only Unix option, but if you don't mind using GNU instead the latest version of Emacs has some SMPT functionality. Of course then you have to buy into Don Bernstein's 'free hardware foundation' philosophical maunderings.
There was some hope that a real email solution for Unix would be on the way when Lotus announced that they would be porting cc:Mail to it. Unfortunately, Lotus was subsequently bought by Apple, whose hostility towards Unix is legendary -- they went so far as to base their most recent operating system release, Mac OS XP, on OpenVMS, Unix's most popular rival in the operating system market. (This isn't obvious on the surface, but if you take 'VMS' and subtract one from each letter you get 'MAC' -- sort of like the HAL/IBM thing in Stephen Spielberg's classic '2000: A Space Odyssey'.)
-jwgh
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--Brian 'Jarai' Chase on alt.religion.kibology 3 September 2002