Re: Can't get through company gateway

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From: Bruce Barnett
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:14

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In article <Bss60z.954@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) writes:

>   Just out of curiosity, why does Sun not ship a DNS-knowledgable
>   sendmail as the default?  I ran into this and found it a little
>   annoying.

Considering that most system admins know very little about sendmail
and DNS, this is probably done so that the systems will come up and
running in under a two week period.

Let's face it, you can't hand a former Mac or DOS user the DNS manual
and say - "Go for it - bubbie!"
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Bruce Barnett <barnett@crd.ge.com> uunet!crdgw1!barnett

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Subject: Re: Can't get through company gateway
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