[553] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Adams)
Fri Apr 5 13:22:37 1991
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 13:21:30 -0500
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
To: Com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: your article <9104040217.AA09961@curta.cc.columbia.edu>
>
> "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
Actually, Erc knows a lot about compilers. The sendmial.cf file
you see was intended to be the output of the compiler and was
no really intended to be used uirectly. The front end
was never written.
