From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 15 21:35:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E63437B404 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0568.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.44.58] helo=mindspring.com) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178CzK-0000xA-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 21:35:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE336FC.EDF41C0F@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 21:35:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chip Morton Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: internal hosts in email References: <3CE2702A.A67642FE@centtech.com> <20020515164724.S82994@lpt.ens.fr> <3CE27739.E009411E@centtech.com> <3CE2A8F1.B5DD6BB4@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020515171405.019e7020@threespace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chip Morton wrote: > At 02:18 PM 5/15/2002, Eric Anderson wrote: > >See, this is why I love the freebsd community. Brutal honesty, yet helpful at > >the same time. The problem with documentation, is that it sucks ass. If you > >know what you are looking for, it's easy as pie to find what you need, but > >then, > >if you know what you are looking for, then hell, who needs the docs.... > > Now Eric, you know good and well that you're supposed to have read every > shred of written documentation on an available subject before you step into > the FreeBSD Coliseum asking your pedestrian questions. I think I read that > in the list charters somewhere. ;-) Generally speaking, there's only one shred for sendmail, and that's the README files in the sources. Everyone always ignores the IGNOREME^WREADME files for Sendmail, even though they know the book is seriously out of date, and has been for over two years now (but the book does discuss the subject). My answer was phrased the way it was because of the tendency to go fishing for easy answers before going and looking where you would be expected to have looked first. 8-). Plus, as this is -chat, I'd be well within the bounds of reason to list available shoe sizes from Nike.com as my response. 8^p. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message