Re: DNS & Mail

["Daniel E. Markle" <syntax@ashtech.net>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 12:03:34AM -0800, Micah Yoder wrote:
> Actually, the sendmail.cf file was designed so that it could be
> processed as quickly as possible by the sendmail program.  Not much of

That looks like an excuse IMHO.  All they needed to do was have sendmail
compile the script only on startup, and require a SIGHUP to re-read it.  As
such config script speed becomes a non-issue.  That looks like the bad
programmers section, or perhaps I am missing something.

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Daniel E. Markle
syntax@ashtech.net

Windows NT - Growing at 1/20th the rate of Linux, and 1/2 the rate of MacOS.
Perhaps there's a reason?
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