[535] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS Acceptable Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Crosswell)
Fri Apr 5 03:52:54 1991
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 21:17:43 GMT-0500
From: alan@curta.cc.columbia.edu (Alan Crosswell)
To: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
Cc: russell@cmcl2.nyu.edu, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow's message of Wed, 03 Apr 91 15:01:05 PST <9104032301.AA04700@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
"Sendmail is a nifty mailer whose flexibility ... is nothing short of amazing.
How did Eric Allman embed this flexibility? He used a variation on Post
Productions as address rewriting rules. If he hadn't taken a theory course,
none of us would have sendmail today."
-- Mark Horton, in net.college, supporting the teaching of theory courses.
Too bad Eric hadn't taken a compilers course so he would have learned
that by simply using LEX and YACC, sendmail.cf files could be readable
(and writable) by mere mortals instead of finite state automata! Long
live TECO.
/a
