Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:46:40 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, mark@grondar.za, donegan@quick.net, dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901010143550.9916-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812312255130.37756-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:
>
> > > > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 21:01:32 -0500 (EST)
> > > > From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
> > > >
> > > > The GPL works fine with FreeBSD, we have a src/gnu, if you don't remember. The
> [...]
> > > > If you can find any fault in including exim, state it.
> > >
> > >
> > > can a company take FreeBSD, including exim, make modifications and
> > > sell the result. several companies to this. the gnat box, nokia,
> > > whistle and others.
> >
> > They seem to have, seeing as we already HAVE GPL software included in the
> > base distribution. Maybe you should ask Julian Elischer :)
>
> Brian, perhaps instead of flooding my mailbox with your ramblings you could:
>
> 1) Wait a couple of years and manage a few lists of this volume like our
> friend Jonathan has.
If 1411 is the worst he's dealing with, then I can count myself as
complying with your first "rambling" here...and i use
sendmail/majordomo/tlb to manage it...quite painlessly...
> 4) Realize that there is news that several commercial Unix vendors are
> quite possibly moving to Postfix. It would be to FreeBSD's advantage
> to roll with them into this.
Wow, you don't say? News? So, like, ppl are considering adopting
it, but nobody is actually *moving* towards it? Interesting...sounds like
we should be *considering* adopting it by putting it into ports first, and
evaluate it from there...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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