[108199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTA Survey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Alston)
Thu Sep 25 03:25:56 2008
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:25:56 +0200
From: Colin Alston <karnaugh@karnaugh.za.net>
To: Noel Butler <noel.butler@ausics.net>
In-Reply-To: <1222326691.29270.10.camel@roswell.ausics.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Noel Butler wrote:
> Some of you may recall back in late 2006 we ran an international poll on
> MTA's, where over a period of several months and 12 and half thousands
> voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by Qmail, then Exim
> then Postfix, Exchange and some lesser know immaterials ...
Your survey has a gaping flaw I'm afraid. For example, 100 nameless
people click on the Sendmail button because it came free with FreeBSD,
versus those of us who have fleets numbering the thousands of Exim
servers and he only gets to vote once. Oh dear...
