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Subject: Re: Antispam sendmail.cf modifications..
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Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 May 1997 22:59:02 +1000 (EST)
>  Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>  > hmmm, someone should develop a tcl/tk interface to sendmail.cf so that it
>  > is easier to administer.  heck, if someone can write a gui for NT to
>  > sendmail.cf, why can't someone do it for unix ?
> 
> ...who needs a GUI when you have m4?  :-)
> 
> Dunno...I'm skeptical of GUIs for system configuration.  Just seems
> that there's no way they could ever be flexible enough to handle everyting.
  Thay must be extensability.
> 

In principle, GUI tools is not such bad, it can be usefull.


> Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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