A couple of days ago, I
mentioned the Register article about the Tuttle, OK city manager that threatened to call the FBI on a Linux developer because his webhost misconfigured their server.
Now The Register has a
great followup. Apprently people all over are justifiably upset at the city manager.
There are also some great
reader comments over at The Register.
Also, that city manager has removed his e-mail address from tuttle-ok.gov. But fortunately, we all remember that it's citymgr@cityoftuttle.org.
After my
mail reader comparison, I've been fortunate enough to have a few mail server troubles. So here, to help you with your mail server decisions, is my mail server comparison.
- Postfix: Your mail can now have the distinction of being deleted by 53 individual subservers
- Sendmail: Priority treatment if you can write, while holding down your Shift key, an m4 macro to calculate the airspeed velicoty of an unladen swallow. All other messages will be summarily deleted in 6-8 weeks, or whenever the queue daemon catches up, whichever is later
- Exim: Conveniently marks every message as "unrouteable" to reduce the hassle of making up reasons to bounce mail
- Courier: Promptly delivers, but then quickly hides, all mail
- Qmail: Might actually receive mail from DJB. The rest of the world will receive rude, copyrighted bounce messages.
- Exchange: Storing mail is irrelevant since the server isn't up often enough to actually receive any. This server is also perfectly secure unless it is running.
Comments
Tue, 26.08.2008 15:46
On a Decwriter IV, the print h ead usually obscures the last couple of characters before th e text. There is a speci [...]
Tue, 26.08.2008 11:29
I should have warned you. It only works on wheat.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:31
John, the comment I left on th e previous post belongs up her e. Sorry.
Tue, 26.08.2008 07:28
John, I tried your 'TERM=escpt erm telnet localhost > /dev/lp 0' trick and I still have wee ds in my corn field.
Mon, 25.08.2008 11:23
One of the mailing lists I'm o n was looking for one too[0]. Lord only knows what evil they want it for ;-) When I [...]
Mon, 25.08.2008 08:46
On a teletype the typebar move s out of the way immediately a fter each character is printer . You can see what you a [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 23:12
Ah, the AB1 is probably the be st single best piece of machin ery I've ever owned. It has b een reliably waking me u [...]
Sun, 24.08.2008 20:48
In classic ribbon type printer s the print head would jump up , print, return down, such tha t if typing slowly you c [...]